Drug, demon, or donut? Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection

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Social media overuse is a central concern in discussions over digital well-being. Digital disconnection is often presented as a solution to this problem, but mixed evidence on its effectiveness suggests we lack understanding of why, how and when disconnection works. Drawing from three recurrent social media metaphors - the drug, demon and donut metaphor - this article aims to advance understanding of social media disconnection by developing a classification of disconnective mechanisms in accordance with three conceptual approaches to social media overuse. This classification provides theory-driven support for differing social media disconnection mechanisms. We discuss its implications for practice and future research.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:45

Enthalten in:

Current opinion in psychology - 45(2022) vom: 01. Juni, Seite 101295

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Vanden Abeele, Mariek M P [VerfasserIn]
Halfmann, Annabell [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Edmund W J [VerfasserIn]

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Volltext

Themen:

Addiction
Attention economy
Balance
Diet
Digital harm
Digital ill-being
Digital well-being
Digital wellbeing
Drug
Journal Article
Metaphor
Overuse
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Social media

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 08.06.2022

Date Revised 28.06.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.12.007

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM336559151