Digital Wellbeing
Learn how digital technologies affect our wellbeing, and find out and ensure your own digital wellbeing with this online course from the University of York.
Duration
3 weeks
Weekly study
3 hours
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Discover how digital technology affects our wellbeing
What is the impact of digital technology on our health, relationships and society? How do we ensure our own digital wellbeing? Explore the answers to these questions and more with this course.
You will investigate new and established technologies and their impact on society, looking at the positives and negatives of engaging with technology.
You will also learn how to ensure your own digital wellbeing, exploring: how to balance online and offline activities, how to stay safe physically and virtually, strategies for dealing with information overload and creating a positive digital identity.
Week 1
Wellbeing in the digital world
Introduction
An introduction to the course and to the first week.
Wellbeing & information technologies
What do we mean by wellbeing? And how does it relate to our information society? We get our heads around the digital wellbeing landscape, and start to take a look at how technology is being employed.
Technology, trends, and behaviours
We begin to look at some of the ways in which technology is shaping our behaviour, and what impacts that may have upon our wellbeing.
Week 2
Identity and personal wellbeing
Our virtual and physical selves
We take a look at the differences between our online and offline selves, and the impact each can have on the other.
Them
We don't exist online within a vacuum. We engage with other people, and they engage with us. But that engagement isn't always a positive one.
The online/offline balancing act
Being online can be great, and so can being offline. Is there a healthy balance to strike between the two, and if so, how might we go about it?
Week 3
Inclusion, collaboration and digital wellbeing
Safety and community
We take a look at some of the risks of online engagement and how we might keep ourselves safe.
Cultural change and inclusion
We look at how digital technologies can shape our society, not only for worse but also for better.
Improving
We look at some other improving effects that digital technology can have on our lives.
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