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Digital Wellbeing (Borgmann: Contemplation in a Technological Era (Merton…

- - - - insertion of machinery between humanity and reality
    - - deadening of spirit and sensibility
      - blunting of perception
      - loss of awareness
      - lowering of tone
      - general fatigue and lassitude
      - proneness to unrest and guilt
    - - thicket of entanglements
        prevents people from hearing
        the Good News
      - technology not only enables, also disables
        withdraws vitality
      - interaction between human ambivalence
        and modulations of technology
    - - need clear-eyed recognition of the
        power of technology
      - need of a resolute search for the
        center of our lives
    - - unforethinkable moments of grace
        
        imperiled by distraction
        
        technology is a fog
- - - - a blind spot
        to moral and ethical dimensions
      - self-focused
        
        the Web is marked by distance and anonymity,
        when in fact we are deeply, irrevocably interconnected
      - consequence-oriented
      - in hypothetical, James observed relatively little
        moral regret and almost no ethical thinking
      - most argue they have more privacy
        offline than online
      - privacy as "in your own hands"
        
        related to a broader ethos of individualism in American culture
    - - online content may negatively
        affect our safety and reputations
      - privacy as social
        
        desire for privacy and willingness to reciprocate
    - - potential for mistakes to live on
      - our conduct sets an example
      - our roles as audiences
      - privacy as foresaken
        
        once posted, online content is "up for grabs"
        
        "online, you almost give up your privacy"
        
        sometimes leads to harmful privacy invasions
        
        e.g. Violentacrez on Reddit
      - disagreeable dialogue
        
        nasty comment sections
      - cruel content
        
        proliferation of hate speech
  - - - but still developing
        
        impulse control
        
        future orientation
      - disinhibition affect
        
        associated with communicating
        through a screen
      - some mindful of the need
        to withhold information
        
        criticize peers for oversharing
      - most youths use proactive privacy measures
    - - the pull of immediate social approval
        often leads people to share with abandon
      - identity development: internet
        poses challenges and provides support
      - youth's online decision making influenced most by peers
    - - play nice
        
        Golden Rule
        
        show moral concerns for how their actions affect others
      - it's a community
        
        recognition of one's actions and the tone
        and integrity of online communities
      - it's just the Internet
        
        what happens online has little significance, because it "isn't real"
  - - - online, everything's so definite... once something's said,
        it's on the record