Emotions and Digital Well-Being: on Social Media’s Emotional Affordances

被引：38
作者：
Steinert S. [1 ]
Dennis M.J. [2 ]
机构：
[1] Department of Values, Technology and Innovation, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft
[2] Department Philosophy and Ethics, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven
来源：
Philosophy & Technology | 2022年 / 35卷 / 2期
基金：
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词：
Affordances; Digital well-being; Emotional affordances; Emotions; Feelings;
D O I：
10.1007/s13347-022-00530-6
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摘要：
Social media technologies (SMTs) are routinely identified as a strong and pervasive threat to digital well-being (DWB). Extended screen time sessions, chronic distractions via notifications, and fragmented workflows have all been blamed on how these technologies ruthlessly undermine our ability to exercise quintessential human faculties. One reason SMTs can do this is because they powerfully affect our emotions. Nevertheless, (1) how social media technology affects our emotional life and (2) how these emotions relate to our digital well-being remain unexplored. Remedying this is important because ethical insights into (1) and (2) open the possibility of designing for social media technologies in ways that actively reinforce our digital well-being. In this article, we examine the way social media technologies facilitate online emotions because of emotional affordances. This has important implications for evaluating the ethical implications of today’s social media platforms, as well as for how we design future ones. © 2022, The Author(s).
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