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How, When, and for Whom does Digital Disconnection Work?

A Process-Based Model of Digital Disconnection Mechanisms
Digital well-being
Social media
Overuse
Attention economy
Diet
Balance
Drug
Addiction
Metaphor
Digital harm
Digital ill-being
Jan 18, 2024
Mariek Vanden Abeele, Heidi Vandebosch, Ernst Koster, Tom de Leyn, Kyle Van Gaeveren, David de Segovia Vicente, Sara Van Bruyssel, Tim van Timmeren, Lieven De Marez, Karolien Poels, Ann DeSmet, Bram De Wever, Marijke Verbruggen, Elfi Baillien

Mapping a Pluralistic Continuum of Approaches to Digital Disconnection

continuum
digital disconnection
digital media
disconnection
epistemology
methodology
non-use
ontology
Jan 1, 2024
Morgan Quinn Ross, Alicia Gilbert, Julius Klingelhoefer, Mora Matassi, Lise-Marie Nassen, Sara Van Bruyssel, Alice Verlinden, Douglas A. Parry

Does mindless scrolling hamper well-being?

Combining ESM and log-data to examine the link between mindless scrolling, goal conflict, guilt, and daily well-being
social media
mindless scrolling
behavioral data
guilt
goal conflict
Jan 1, 2024
David de Segovia Vicente, Kyle Van Gaeveren, Stephen L. Murphy, Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele

Connected Yet Cognitively Drained?

A Mixed-Methods Study Examining Whether Online Vigilance and Availability Pressure Promote Mental Fatigue
online vigilance
fatigue
availability pressure
behavioral data
Jan 1, 2024
Kyle Van Gaeveren, Stephen L. Murphy, David de Segovia Vicente, Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele

Who cares about digital disconnection?

Exploring commodified digital disconnection discourse through a relational lens
care
commodification
digital disconnection
digital well-being
feminism
Oct 23, 2023
Sara Van Bruyssel, Ralf De Wolf, Mariek Vanden Abeele

Digital well-being in an age of mobile connectivity

An introduction to the Special Issue
digital well-being
Feb 24, 2022
Mariek Vanden Abeele, Minh Hao Nguyen

Drug, demon, or donut?

Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection
Digital well-being
Social media
Overuse
Attention economy
Diet
Balance
Drug
Addiction
Metaphor
Digital harm
Digital ill-being
Feb 3, 2022
Mariek Vanden Abeele, Annabell Halfmann, Edmund Lee
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Project DISCONNECT is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 950635).