Docherty, N. orcid.org/0000-0001-5945-008X and Biega, A.J. (2022) (Re)Politicizing digital well-being : beyond user engagements. In: Barbosa, S., Lampe, C., Appert, C., Shamma, D.A., Drucker, S., Williamson, J. and Yatani, K., (eds.) CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '22: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 30 Apr - 05 May 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. Association for Computing Machinery , pp. 1-13. ISBN 9781450391573
Abstract
The psychological costs of the attention economy are often considered through the binary of harmful design and healthy use, with digital well-being chiefly characterised as a matter of personal responsibility. This article adopts an interdisciplinary approach to highlight the empirical, ideological, and political limits of embedding this individualised perspective in computational discourses and designs of digital well-being measurement. We will reveal well-being to be a culturally specific and environmentally conditioned concept and will problematize user engagement as a universal proxy for well-being. Instead, the contributing factors of user well-being will be located in environing social, cultural, and political conditions far beyond the control of individual users alone. In doing so, we hope to reinvigorate the issue of digital well-being measurement as a nexus point of political concern, through which multiple disciplines can study experiences of digital ill as symptomatic of wider social inequalities and (capitalist) relations of power.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | well-being; user engagement; measurement; time well-spent; power |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2022 12:45 |
Last Modified: | 29 Sep 2022 12:45 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Association for Computing Machinery |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1145/3491102.3501857 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:190980 |