Category: Wellbeing
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Why we shouldn’t be pathologising online gaming before the evidence is in
– in WellbeingNew study suggests that Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) may not, in itself, be robustly associated…
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From private profit to public liabilities: how platform capitalism’s business model works for children
– in WellbeingWhy has platform capitalism come to dominate children’s relationship to the internet and why is…
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Design ethics for gender-based violence and safety technologies
– in WellbeingSharing instructive primers for developers interested in creating technologies for those affected by gender-based violence.
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Cyberbullying is far less prevalent than offline bullying, but still needs addressing
Interventions to address cyberbullying will only be effective if they also consider the dynamics of…
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Social media is nothing like drugs, despite all the horror stories
– in WellbeingIn reality, social media can have both positive and negative outcomes.
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How and why is children’s digital data being harvested?
It’s time to refocus on our responsibilities to children before they are eclipsed by the commercial…
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We should look to automation to relieve the current pressures on healthcare
Automation may address these pressures in primary care, while also reconfiguring the work of staff…
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Exploring the world of self-tracking: who wants our data and why?
What happens when we turn our everyday experience—in particular, health and wellness-related experience—into data?
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Psychology is in Crisis: And Here’s How to Fix It
It seems that in psychology and communication, as in other fields of social science, much…
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Tackling Digital Inequality: Why We Have to Think Bigger
While the UK government has financed technological infrastructure and invested in schemes to address digital…
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Five Pieces You Should Probably Read On: Reality, Augmented Reality and Ambient Fun
Things you should probably know, and things that deserve to be brought out for another…
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Exploring the world of digital detoxing
Advocates of “digital detoxing” view digital communication as eroding our ability to concentrate, to empathise,…