论文标题

(重新)政治化数字福祉:超越用户参与

(Re)Politicizing Digital Well-Being: Beyond User Engagements

论文作者

Docherty, Niall, Biega, Asia J.

论文摘要

人们经常通过有害设计和健康使用的二进制来考虑注意力经济的心理成本,数字福祉主要是个人责任的特征。本文采用了一种跨学科的方法来突出将这种个性化观点嵌入数字福祉测量的计算话语和设计中的经验,意识形态和政治局限性。我们将揭示幸福感是一种具有文化特定和环境条件的概念,并将用户参与度作为福祉的普遍代理。取而代之的是,用户福祉的促成因素将位于环境,文化和政治条件中,远远超出了个人用户的控制。在这样做的过程中,我们希望将数字福祉衡量的问题振兴为政治关注点的联系点,通过这些问题,多个学科可以研究数字疾病的经历,以此作为更广泛的社会不平等和(资本主义)权力关系的症状。

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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