Defining and measuring the effects of digital technologies on social sustainability: A systematic literature review

IF 9.9 1区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-09-03 DOI:10.1002/sd.2741
Gabriel Andy Szalkowski, Christian Johansen
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The impact of digital technologies on the environmental and economic sides of sustainability has received considerable attention. In contrast, the societal implications are quite under‐researched. Through a systematic literature review, we describe the current status of the research on the impacts that digital technologies have on social sustainability. We pay particular attention to methods used for assessing and measuring these impacts. One positive observation made from our descriptive (bibliometric) analysis is that there is an increasing interest in social sustainability. Our content analysis identified four categories, namely “Area of Impact,” “Approach to technology,” “Measured/Measurable Effect,” and “Measuring Methods”, accumulating 30 labels, which we use to classify the papers at study. A quite common label is “Jobs” as the area of impacts, whereas the least used label in the approach to technology category is “Cyber‐security,” signaling that few papers that investigate the impacts of digital technologies on social sustainability consider their security and privacy implications. Other gaps that we expose are the lack of empirical data as well as the lack of mathematical modeling when measuring the effects of digital technologies, with direct experiments appearing very seldom in the literature. In an attempt to provide a guide for future research, we identify five general research gaps, listing 20 specific research questions, and propose a structuring procedure for articles on social implications of digital technologies to be produce in a more systematic manner.
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定义和衡量数字技术对社会可持续性的影响:系统文献综述
数字技术对可持续性的环境和经济方面的影响受到了相当大的关注。相比之下,对社会影响的研究却相当不足。通过系统的文献综述,我们描述了数字技术对社会可持续性影响的研究现状。我们特别注意用于评估和测量这些影响的方法。从我们的描述性(文献计量学)分析中得出的一个积极的观察结果是,人们对社会可持续性越来越感兴趣。我们的内容分析确定了四个类别,即“影响领域”、“技术方法”、“可测量/可测量的效果”和“测量方法”,共累积了30个标签,用于对研究中的论文进行分类。一个相当常见的标签是“工作”作为影响领域,而在技术类别的方法中,使用最少的标签则是“网络安全”,这表明很少有研究数字技术对社会可持续性影响的论文考虑其安全和隐私影响。我们暴露出的其他差距是,在衡量数字技术的影响时,缺乏经验数据,也缺乏数学建模,直接实验在文献中很少出现。为了为未来的研究提供指导,我们确定了五个一般性的研究空白,列出了20个具体的研究问题,并提出了一个关于数字技术社会影响的文章的结构化程序,以便以更系统的方式制作。
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期刊介绍: Sustainable Development is a publication that takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore and propose strategies for achieving sustainable development. Our aim is to discuss and address the challenges associated with sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals. All submissions are subjected to a thorough review process to ensure that our readers receive valuable and original content of the highest caliber.
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