Digital Well-Being Across the Ages – Generational Perceptions of Well-Being in Reference to the Use of the Internet and Digital Technology

|Publish Date: Dec 17, 2018|Keywords: Contemporary EHF 2017, Mental health & wellbeing, Publications, Technology|

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Barry KIRBY, Jamie-Lee BIRCH, Jasmine CAIN and Victoria NEWLAND

Abstract
Digital well-being is an extension of the concept of well-being centered around the use of the online and digital world. It is popular to assume the older generations are unsafe and lacking in engagement when discussing the use of the online world and digital skillsets; thus, a potential threat to the development of technology and concepts such as the Internet of Things, Smart Cities and Smart Communities. This paper explores the differences in attitudes towards digital well-being between older and younger generations.