How's Life in the Digital Age? Opportunities and Risks of the Digital Transformation for People's Well-being

How's Life in the Digital Age? Opportunities and Risks of the Digital Transformation for People's Well-being
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9264311807

This report documents how the ongoing digital transformation is affecting people’s lives across the 11 key dimensions that make up the How’s Life? Well-being Framework (Income and wealth, Jobs and earnings, Housing, Health status, Education and skills, Work-life balance, Civic engagement and ...

How to Thrive in the Digital Age

How to Thrive in the Digital Age
Author: Tom Chatfield
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 144721305X

Our world is, increasingly, a digital one. Over half of the planet’s adult population now spend more of their waking hours ‘plugged in’ than not, whether to the internet, mobile telephony, or other digital media. To email, text, tweet and blog our way through our careers, relationships and even our family lives is now the status quo. But what effect is this need for constant connection really having? For the first time, Tom Chatfield examines what our wired life is really doing to our minds and our culture - and offers practical advice on how we can hope to prosper in a digital century. One in the new series of books from The School of Life, launched May 2012: How to Stay Sane by Philippa Perry How to Find Fulfilling Work by Roman Krznaric How to Worry Less About Money by John Armstrong How to Change the World by John-Paul Flintoff How to Thrive in the Digital Age by Tom Chatfield How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton

Civility in the Digital Age

Civility in the Digital Age
Author: Andrea Weckerle
Publisher: Que Publishing
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2013-02-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0133134989

Re-civilize Life Online! PROVEN Conflict Management and Prevention for Social Media and the Web Ever seem like the Web is just one big screaming match? Ever feel like you’re refereeing a worldwide tantrum on YOUR social media sites, blogs, and online forums? That’s not good for your goals—or your sanity. Stop. Now. Step back. Take a breath. And solve the problem. Thought you couldn’t? You can: there are proven best practices for getting people to be civil online. Even when they disagree. Even if they’re complaining. You can avoid misunderstandings that lead to flame wars, and promote constructive conversation amongst those with strongly held views. And, finally, you can handle the people that just can’t be civilized. Today, these skills are flat-out imperative. Everyone who leads, curates, manages, or participates in online communities needs them. Andrea Weckerle hasn’t just compiled them: she’s created a 30-Day Action Plan for restoring civility to your corner of the digital world. This plan works—and not one moment too soon. Master the foundational skills you need to resolve and prevent conflict online Understand the dynamics of each online conflict, from procedural disputes to online lynch mobs Stay cool and effectively manage conflict in even the highest-pressure online environments Differentiate between what people say and what they really want Create a positive online footprint—or start cleaning up a negative image Recognize online troublemakers and strategize ways to handle them Manage your own anger—and, when necessary, express it online safely and productively Strategically manage others’ online hostility and frustration Limit risks to your organization’s online reputation due to actions it can’t control Draft and implement corporate social media policies that actually work

Personal Connections in the Digital Age

Personal Connections in the Digital Age
Author: Nancy K. Baym
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745695973

The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. In this second edition of her timely and vibrant book, Nancy Baym provides frameworks for thinking critically about the roles of digital media in personal relationships. Rather than providing exuberant accounts or cautionary tales, it offers a data-grounded primer on how to make sense of these important changes in relational life Fully updated to reflect new developments in technology and digital scholarship, the book identifies the core relational issues these media disturb and shows how our talk about them echoes historical discussions about earlier communication technologies. Chapters explore how we use mediated language and nonverbal behavior to develop and maintain communities, social networks, and new relationships, and to maintain existing relationships in our everyday lives. The book combines research findings with lively examples to address questions such as: Can mediated interaction be warm and personal? Are people honest about themselves online? Can relationships that start online work? Do digital media damage the other relationships in our lives? Throughout, the book argues that these questions must be answered with firm understandings of media qualities and the social and personal contexts in which they are developed and used. This new edition of Personal Connections in the Digital Age will be required reading for all students and scholars of media, communication studies, and sociology, as well as all those who want a richer understanding of digital media and everyday life.

Intellectual Privacy

Intellectual Privacy
Author: Neil Richards
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2015
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199946140

How should we think about the problems of privacy and free speech? Neil Richards argues that when privacy and free speech truly conflict, free speech should almost always win, but contends that, contrary to conventional wisdom, speech and privacy are only rarely in conflict.

Parenting for a Digital Future

Parenting for a Digital Future
Author: Sonia Livingstone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0190874694

"In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation. Drawing on extensive research with diverse parents, this book reveals how digital technologies give personal and political parenting struggles a distinctive character, as parents determine how to forge new territory with little precedent, or support. The book reveals the pincer movement of parenting in late modernity. Parents are both more burdened with responsibilities and charged with respecting the agency of their child-leaving much to negotiate in today's "democratic" families. The book charts how parents now often enact authority and values through digital technologies-as "screen time," games, or social media become ways of both being together and setting boundaries. The authors show how digital technologies introduce both valued opportunities and new sources of risk. To light their way, parents comb through the hazy memories of their own childhoods and look toward varied imagined futures. This results in deeply diverse parenting in the present, as parents move between embracing, resisting, or balancing the role of technology in their own and their children's lives. This book moves beyond the panicky headlines to offer a deeply researched exploration of what it means to parent in a period of significant social and technological change. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research in the United Kingdom, the book offers conclusions and insights relevant to parents, policymakers, educators, and researchers everywhere"--

Born Digital

Born Digital
Author: John Palfrey
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2016-07-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0465094155

"An excellent primer on what it means to live digitally. It should be required reading for adults trying to understand the next generation." -- Nicholas Negroponte, author of Being Digital The first generation of children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming of age and reshaping the world in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and even the shape of our family life are being transformed. But who are these wired young people? And what is the world they're creating going to look like? In this revised and updated edition, leading Internet and technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser offer a cutting-edge sociological portrait of these young people, who can seem, even to those merely a generation older, both extraordinarily sophisticated and strangely narrow. Exploring a broad range of issues -- privacy concerns, the psychological effects of information overload, and larger ethical issues raised by the fact that young people's social interactions, friendships, and civic activities are now mediated by digital technologies -- Born Digital is essential reading for parents, teachers, and the myriad of confused adults who want to understand the digital present and shape the digital future.

Digital Discipline

Digital Discipline
Author: Havard Mela
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2024-02-06
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1636982085

Take back your life and learn how to thrive in a world with constant distractions by building a conscious relationship with the time you spend online. In Digital Discipline, Havard Mela reveals the secret to finding balance with digital use in the modern world. Mela combines the knowledge of how humans are impacted by technology with applicable steps to finding purpose and cultivating the discipline required to build a life centered around one’s core values. Digital Discipline is for anyone ready to trade in online distractions, sapping their energy and dopamine for genuine excitement about the offline world. It breaks down the consequences of passive social media use and mindless consumption and provides a framework for people to be more presently and efficiently engaged in their daily lives. Those who put Digital Discipline into practice will experience: a positive impact on their physical health through increased activity levels better mental health through the implementation of mindful techniques strengthened relationships with friends and family. more time and energy to pursue what matters the most. ...And much more. Digital Discipline will give you the tools and strategies to be more disciplined and less distracted, leading to a happier and more effective life.

Reclaiming Conversation

Reclaiming Conversation
Author: Sherry Turkle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2015
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1594205558

An engaging look at how technology is undermining our creativity and relationships and how face-to-face conversation can help us get it back.