Digital well-being in an age of mobile connectivity: An introduction to the Special Issue

IF 3.1 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2022-02-24 DOI:10.1177/20501579221080899
M. V. Vanden Abeele, M. Nguyen
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Abstract

Although the ubiquitous connectivity afforded by mobile media brings benefits to people’s work, social, and leisure lives, these benefits are sometimes overshadowed by the burdens of 24/7 connectivity, which challenge the well-being of individuals and society. Digital well-being is an emerging concept that refers to how people experience these benefits and burdens. This Special Issue brings together five articles that push the boundaries of digital well-being research by shedding light on the opportunities and challenges that people experience in relation to mobile connectivity, exploring the role of digital disconnection for digital well-being, and theorizing the conceptual underpinnings of digital well-being. In this editorial, we first give a definitional overview of the digital well-being concept and situate it in the field of mobile media and communication scholarship. Next, we identify two key issues that emerge from the Special Issue, and explain how the individual articles further our understanding of them. These issues are: (a) the strong conceptual link between digital well-being and digital disconnection; and (b) the conceptual difference between digital well-being as a psychological condition and as a socio-cultural artefact. To end, we present a future research agenda on digital well-being by first identifying current knowledge gaps, and next highlighting several themes that we anticipate as crucial in the forthcoming decade of digital well-being research in an age of mobile connectivity.
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移动连接时代的数字福祉:特刊简介
尽管移动媒体提供的无处不在的连接为人们的工作、社交和休闲生活带来了好处,但这些好处有时会被全天候连接的负担所掩盖,这对个人和社会的福祉构成了挑战。数字幸福是一个新兴的概念,指的是人们如何体验这些好处和负担。本期特刊汇集了五篇文章,通过揭示人们在移动连接方面所经历的机遇和挑战,探索数字断开对数字幸福的作用,以及对数字幸福概念基础进行理论化,突破了数字幸福研究的界限。在这篇社论中,我们首先对数字幸福概念进行了定义概述,并将其置于移动媒体和通信学术领域。接下来,我们确定特刊中出现的两个关键问题,并解释个别文章如何进一步加深我们对它们的理解。这些问题是:(a)数字幸福感和数字脱节之间的强烈概念联系;以及(b)数字幸福作为一种心理条件和作为一种社会文化产物之间的概念差异。最后,我们提出了一个关于数字幸福感的未来研究议程,首先确定当前的知识差距,然后强调几个主题,我们预计这些主题在移动连接时代的未来十年数字幸福感研究中至关重要。
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期刊介绍: Mobile Media & Communication is a peer-reviewed forum for international, interdisciplinary academic research on the dynamic field of mobile media and communication. Mobile Media & Communication draws on a wide and continually renewed range of disciplines, engaging broadly in the concept of mobility itself.
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