1st Edition
The Future of Digital Well-Being Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Flourishing in the Age of AI
Contents
Foreword
James Williams
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Matthew J. Dennis and Peter Königs
Part I: Foundational Issues
2. What is Digital Well-Being?
Lyanne Uhlhorn and Matthew J. Dennis
3. Digital Well-Being and Meaningfulness: A Collaborative Agenda
Markus Rüther
4. Digital Well-Being and Emotional Engagement: A Social Turn
Jeroen Hopster
Part II: Empirical Perspectives
5. (Addictive) Social Media and Mental Health: Empirical Evidence
Julia Brailovskaia
6. Benefits and Drawbacks: The Digital Well- Being Scale
Mariek Vanden Abeele, Michaela Šaradín Lebedíková, Kyle Van Gaeveren, David de Segovia Vicente, and Stephen L. Murphy
Part III: Ethical Topics
7. Well-Being, Digital Lives, and ‘Losing Touch with Reality’
Emma C. Gordon
8. Follow the Instagram Model? Restricting Political News
Bartłomiej Chomański
9. AI Companions: Assessing Future Risks and Benefits to Well-Being
Dan Weijers and Nick Munn
10. Digital Well-Being in an Age of AI-Enabled Digital Twins
Christopher Burr, Steven Niederer, and David Wagg
Part IV: Intercultural Perspectives
11. Enlarging the Self: Digital Well-Being and Confucian Philosophy
Pak-Hang Wong
12. Counteracting Digital McMindfulness: A Neo-Confucian Perspective
Joseph Sta. Maria and Matthew Dennis
Biography
Matthew J. Dennis is an Assistant Professor in Ethics of Technology at TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands. His research focuses on how emerging technologies challenge our notions of creativity, autonomy, and well-being. He is the author of Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments (2021) and co-editor of Values for a Post-Pandemic Future (2022).
Peter Königs is Assistant Professor of Practical Philosophy at TU Dortmund University, Germany. His current research interests are in the ethics of technology, political philosophy, and social epistemology. He is the author of Problems for Moral Debunkers: On the Logic and Limits of Empirically Informed Ethics (2022).
