Intercultural Ethics for Digital Well-Being: Identifying Problems and Exploring Solutions

M.J. (Matthew) Dennis*, R.F. (Rockwell) Clancy

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Abstract

Designing social media technologies to promote digital well-being requires designers to face many challenges. In this article, we explore one under-explored challenge, relating to how conceptions of what it means to flourish online show significant cultural variation. We believe that today’s design-based approaches to digital well-being are hobbled by a lack of ethical attention towards important cultural variations. To remedy this, we explore the potential for an intercultural approach to digital well-being, one that respects cultural differences while preserving what culturally distinct conceptions of human flourishing have in common.
Original languageEnglish
Article number7 (2022)
JournalDigital Society
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Publication statusPublished - 2022

Funding

The funds to conduct this research were partially funded by the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT), which is funded through the Gravitation programme of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO grant number 024.004.031) and the US National Science Foundations (NSF grant number 2124984).

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