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Title: | Why, how, when, and for whom does digital disconnection work? A process-based framework of digital disconnection | Authors: | Vanden Abeele, MMP Vandebosch, H Koster, EHW DE LEYN, Tom Van Gaeveren, K Vicente, DD Van Bruyssel, S van Timmeren, T De Marez, L Poels, K Desmet, A De Wever, B Verbruggen, M Baillien, E |
Issue Date: | 2024 | Publisher: | OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC | Source: | COMMUNICATION THEORY, 34 (1), p. 3-17 | Abstract: | Digital disconnection has emerged as a concept describing the actions people take to limit their digital connectivity to enhance their well-being. To date, evidence on its effectiveness is mixed, leading to calls for greater consideration of why, how, when, and for whom digital disconnection works. This article responds to these calls, presenting a framework that differentiates four key harms that contribute to experiences of digital ill-being (time displacement, interference, role blurring, and exposure effects). Using these four harms as a starting point, the framework explains: (1) why people are motivated to digitally disconnect; (2) how specific disconnection strategies (i.e., placing limits on time, access, channels, and contents, interactions and features) may help them; and for whom (3) and under which conditions (when) these strategies can be effective. | Notes: | Vanden Abeele, MMP (corresponding author), Univ Ghent, Dept Commun Sci, Imec, Mict, Ghent, Belgium. mariekvandenabeele@gmail.com |
Keywords: | digital disconnection;digital well-being;mechanisms;interventions;harms | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/42468 | ISSN: | 1050-3293 | e-ISSN: | 1468-2885 | DOI: | 10.1093/ct/qtad016 | ISI #: | WOS:001154547700001 | Rights: | The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of International Communication Association. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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