ERC Starting Grant · 2020
Digital Wellbeing in a Culture of Ubiquitous Connectivity: Towards a Dynamic Pathway Model
Ubiquitous connectivity increases our autonomy: We can connect to content, contacts and services without time or place constraints. Paradoxically, however, ubiquitous connectivity also threatens that very autonomy: The addictive design of digital technologies diverts attention away from our primary activities, and in our contemporary culture of connectivity we face increasing pressures to be permanently online and permanently connected. This mobile connectivity paradox presents an urgent challenge: How can we balance connectivity and disconnectivity so that we experience digital wellbeing? Current scholarship lacks answers to this question. It fails to account for the dynamic nature of…
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