Steinert Steffen, Dennis Matthew James
Department of Values, Technology and Innovation, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
Department Philosophy and Ethics, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Philos Technol. 2022;35(2):36. doi: 10.1007/s13347-022-00530-6. Epub 2022 Apr 13.
Social media technologies (SMTs) are routinely identified as a strong and pervasive threat to digital well-being (DWB). Extended screen time sessions, chronic distractions via notifications, and fragmented workflows have all been blamed on how these technologies ruthlessly undermine our ability to exercise quintessential human faculties. One reason SMTs can do this is because they powerfully affect our emotions. Nevertheless, (1) how social media technology affects our emotional life and (2) how these emotions relate to our digital well-being remain unexplored. Remedying this is important because ethical insights into (1) and (2) open the possibility of designing for social media technologies in ways that actively reinforce our digital well-being. In this article, we examine the way social media technologies facilitate online emotions because of emotional affordances. This has important implications for evaluating the ethical implications of today's social media platforms, as well as for how we design future ones.
社交媒体技术（SMTs）通常被视为对数字福祉（DWB）的强大且普遍存在的威胁。长时间的屏幕使用、通知带来的长期干扰以及碎片化的工作流程，都被归咎于这些技术无情地削弱了我们运用典型人类能力的能力。SMTs能够做到这一点的一个原因是它们对我们的情绪有强大影响。然而，（1）社交媒体技术如何影响我们的情感生活，以及（2）这些情感如何与我们的数字福祉相关，仍未得到探索。弥补这一不足很重要，因为对（1）和（2）的伦理洞察为以积极增强我们数字福祉的方式设计社交媒体技术开辟了可能性。在本文中，我们研究社交媒体技术因情感可供性而促进在线情绪的方式。这对于评估当今社交媒体平台的伦理影响以及我们如何设计未来的平台具有重要意义。
