APPROACH TO NEW FORMS OF DIGITAL SOCIABILITY FOSTERED BY COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has fostered the digital turn, which has resulted in the transformation of different areas of daily life. The goal of this work is to identify new digital practices and their social impact in this context of progressive digitization. By means of a methodology based on a bibliographical and secondary data sources review, the work stresses some of the consequences of these digital habits, such as self-exploitation due to the difficulty of dissociating between leisure time and teleworking, videodysmorfia and exhaustion caused by the permanent videoconferences, the excess of misinformation or the lack of digital privacy and security. To prevent these undesirable effects of a hyperconnected, hyperactive and unequal society, the adoption of digital hygiene measures is proposed to minimize risks and turn them into opportunities. The improvement of digital skills becomes essential to achieve this aim.