scholarly journals Framing Digital Wellbeing as a Social Good

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Daubs ◽  
Alexander Beattie
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Governmental Regulation ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Use Of Social Media

This contribution argues that companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google are increasingly incorporating features that supposedly promote “digital wellbeing” to forestall regulation of their platforms and services. The inclusion of these features, we suggest, frames these commercial platforms as providing a social good by promising to encourage more “intentional” or “mindful” use of social media and mobile devices. Apple’s June 2018 iOS update, for example, included a new function called Screentime, which incorporates features similar to other digital wellbeing mobile apps including the ability to impose time limits on the use of specific apps and data analytics on amount of time a user spends on their device. The introduction of these features demonstrates how oft-critiqued platforms are increasingly adopting the language of their critics in order to frame themselves as a social good. This strategy mimics that used by radio executives in the United States in the early 20th century, where the medium developed as a fully commercial enterprise. To avoid regulation, it became necessary to perpetuate the perception that commercial broadcasters were also a social good that fulfilled a public service function. Popular entertainment programming was thus supplemented with “high culture” music programmes (e.g., classical music), news, and “home services” shows. Platforms today, we assert, are inadvertently or purposefully adopting a similar tactic to position themselves as leaders in a developing digital wellness market in the hopes of avoiding future governmental regulation.

scholarly journals Framing Digital Wellbeing as a Social Good

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Daubs ◽  
Alexander Beattie
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Governmental Regulation ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Use Of Social Media

This contribution argues that companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google are increasingly incorporating features that supposedly promote “digital wellbeing” to forestall regulation of their platforms and services. The inclusion of these features, we suggest, frames these commercial platforms as providing a social good by promising to encourage more “intentional” or “mindful” use of social media and mobile devices. Apple’s June 2018 iOS update, for example, included a new function called Screentime, which incorporates features similar to other digital wellbeing mobile apps including the ability to impose time limits on the use of specific apps and data analytics on amount of time a user spends on their device. The introduction of these features demonstrates how oft-critiqued platforms are increasingly adopting the language of their critics in order to frame themselves as a social good. This strategy mimics that used by radio executives in the United States in the early 20th century, where the medium developed as a fully commercial enterprise. To avoid regulation, it became necessary to perpetuate the perception that commercial broadcasters were also a social good that fulfilled a public service function. Popular entertainment programming was thus supplemented with “high culture” music programmes (e.g., classical music), news, and “home services” shows. Platforms today, we assert, are inadvertently or purposefully adopting a similar tactic to position themselves as leaders in a developing digital wellness market in the hopes of avoiding future governmental regulation.

scholarly journals Framing Digital Wellbeing as a Social Good

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Beattie ◽  
Michael Daubs
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Governmental Regulation ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Use Of Social Media

This contribution argues that companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google are increasingly incorporating features that supposedly promote “digital wellbeing” to forestall regulation of their platforms and services. The inclusion of these features, we suggest, frames these commercial platforms as providing a social good by promising to encourage more “intentional” or “mindful” use of social media and mobile devices. Apple’s June 2018 iOS update, for example, included a new function called Screentime, which incorporates features similar to other digital wellbeing mobile apps including the ability to impose time limits on the use of specific apps and data analytics on amount of time a user spends on their device. The introduction of these features demonstrates how oft-critiqued platforms are increasingly adopting the language of their critics in order to frame themselves as a social good. This strategy mimics that used by radio executives in the United States in the early 20th century, where the medium developed as a fully commercial enterprise. To avoid regulation, it became necessary to perpetuate the perception that commercial broadcasters were also a social good that fulfilled a public service function. Popular entertainment programming was thus supplemented with “high culture” music programmes (e.g., classical music), news, and “home services” shows. Platforms today, we assert, are inadvertently or purposefully adopting a similar tactic to position themselves as leaders in a developing digital wellness market in the hopes of avoiding future governmental regulation.

scholarly journals Framing 'digital well-being' as a social good

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Daubs ◽  
Alex Beattie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Screen Time ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Governmental Regulation ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Time Frames

This contribution argues that companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google are increasingly incorporating features that supposedly promote “digital well-being” to forestall regulation of their platforms and services. The inclusion of these features, such as Apple’s Screen Time, frames these commercial platforms as providing a social good by promising to encourage more “intentional” or “mindful” use of social media and mobile devices. As a result, oft-critiqued platforms are increasingly adopting the language of their critics in order to frame themselves as a social good. This strategy mimics that used by radio executives in the United States in the early twentieth century, where the medium developed as a predominantly commercial enterprise. To avoid regulation, it became necessary to perpetuate the perception that commercial broadcasters were also a social good that fulfilled a public service function. Platforms today, we assert, are inadvertently or purposefully adopting a similar tactic to position themselves as leaders in a developing digital wellness market in the hopes of avoiding future governmental regulation.

scholarly journals Framing 'digital well-being' as a social good

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Beattie ◽  
Michael Daubs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Screen Time ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Governmental Regulation ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Time Frames

This contribution argues that companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google are increasingly incorporating features that supposedly promote “digital well-being” to forestall regulation of their platforms and services. The inclusion of these features, such as Apple’s Screen Time, frames these commercial platforms as providing a social good by promising to encourage more “intentional” or “mindful” use of social media and mobile devices. As a result, oft-critiqued platforms are increasingly adopting the language of their critics in order to frame themselves as a social good. This strategy mimics that used by radio executives in the United States in the early twentieth century, where the medium developed as a predominantly commercial enterprise. To avoid regulation, it became necessary to perpetuate the perception that commercial broadcasters were also a social good that fulfilled a public service function. Platforms today, we assert, are inadvertently or purposefully adopting a similar tactic to position themselves as leaders in a developing digital wellness market in the hopes of avoiding future governmental regulation.

Framing 'digital well-being' as a social good

First Monday ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Beattie ◽  
Michael S. Daubs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Screen Time ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Governmental Regulation ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Time Frames

This contribution argues that companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google are increasingly incorporating features that supposedly promote “digital well-being” to forestall regulation of their platforms and services. The inclusion of these features, such as Apple’s Screen Time, frames these commercial platforms as providing a social good by promising to encourage more “intentional” or “mindful” use of social media and mobile devices. As a result, oft-critiqued platforms are increasingly adopting the language of their critics in order to frame themselves as a social good. This strategy mimics that used by radio executives in the United States in the early twentieth century, where the medium developed as a predominantly commercial enterprise. To avoid regulation, it became necessary to perpetuate the perception that commercial broadcasters were also a social good that fulfilled a public service function. Platforms today, we assert, are inadvertently or purposefully adopting a similar tactic to position themselves as leaders in a developing digital wellness market in the hopes of avoiding future governmental regulation.

scholarly journals Framing 'digital well-being' as a social good

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Daubs ◽  
Alex Beattie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Screen Time ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Governmental Regulation ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Time Frames

This contribution argues that companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google are increasingly incorporating features that supposedly promote “digital well-being” to forestall regulation of their platforms and services. The inclusion of these features, such as Apple’s Screen Time, frames these commercial platforms as providing a social good by promising to encourage more “intentional” or “mindful” use of social media and mobile devices. As a result, oft-critiqued platforms are increasingly adopting the language of their critics in order to frame themselves as a social good. This strategy mimics that used by radio executives in the United States in the early twentieth century, where the medium developed as a predominantly commercial enterprise. To avoid regulation, it became necessary to perpetuate the perception that commercial broadcasters were also a social good that fulfilled a public service function. Platforms today, we assert, are inadvertently or purposefully adopting a similar tactic to position themselves as leaders in a developing digital wellness market in the hopes of avoiding future governmental regulation.

“Shooting the Keys”: Musical Horseplay and High Culture

2011 ◽  
pp. 244-263
Author(s):  
Charles Hiroshi Garrett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
High Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
A Site

This article explains how humor acts not only as a kind of psychological comfort or comic relief, but also as an opportunity for cultural critique and a site of competition and interchange between elite and popular culture. The discussion focuses on how musical humorists have connected with different aspects of the world of classical music. It also determines what this connection shows about cultural history and the changing status of classical music in the United States.

Capturing the Art of Public Service: The Government’s Perspective

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Tony Carrizales
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
Virtual Museum ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Art Forms

Public Service, in popular culture, can be viewed through many artistic lenses. Although there has been a consistent negative portrayal of government through art forms such as film and television, this research looks to review how government institutions in the United States have used art to provide a positive portrayal of public service. Eight forms of public service art are outlined through a content analysis of the holdings at the Virtual Museum of Public Service. The findings show that government and public entities have historically and continually engaged in promoting public service through art. Many of these public art examples are accessible year round, without limitations, such as buildings, statues, and public structures.

scholarly journals Does Person Organization Fit and Person-Job Fit Mediate the Relationship between Public Service Motivation and Work Stress among U.S. Federal Employees?

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Leonard Bright
Keyword(s):  
Work Stress ◽  
Public Service ◽  
High Stress ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Federal Employees ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Indirect Relationship

A plethora of research has extolled the benefits of public service motivation (PSM) in public organizations. However, much less empirical attention has focused on its relationship to work stress. Even though it has been theorized that high levels of PSM causes individuals to be more resilient in stressful public service work environments, empirical research has failed to provide support. Only one study has been conducted which has revealed that high levels of PSM is directly associated with high levels of job stress among public employees, but that its beneficial effects are partially mediated by person-organization (PO) fit. That is, employees with high levels of PSM and high levels of fit to their organizations did not appear to suffer from high stress. This study sought to add to this limited body of research and explore the extent to which person-job (PJ) improves the field’s understanding of the relationships among PSM, PO fit, and work stress. Based on a sample of federal employees in the United States, this study challenged and confirmed the findings of existing research. For instance, PSM had no direct relationship to work stress. However, PSM maintained an indirect relationship to stress through PO fit. The respondents with high levels of PSM reported that they had high levels of fit to their organizations which was associated with significantly lower levels of work stress. Similarly, PSM was not directly related to PJ fit, but was indirectly related through its association with PO fit. PSM was associated with high levels of fit between employees and public organizations, which was subsequently associated with high levels of fit with public service jobs and lower work stress. Above all, this research clarifies the process of how PSM influences work stress among public employees, through PO fit and PJ fit.

Effects of HIV/AIDS Public Service Announcements On Attitude and Behavior: Interplay of Perceived Threat and Self-Efficacy

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 799-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jueman (Mandy) Zhang ◽  
Di Zhang ◽  
T. Makana Chock
Keyword(s):  
Condom Use ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Service Announcements ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Perceived Susceptibility ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Hiv Aids

We examined how perceived threat affected attitude and behavior toward condom use with main and nonmain partners, among at-risk young adults with varying levels of self-efficacy. Participants were 170 heterosexually active, single students at a northeastern university in the United States. Exposure to HIV/AIDS public service announcements was found to increase perceived susceptibility, which facilitated a positive attitude toward condom use with main partners but not with nonmain partners. High self-efficacy promoted a positive attitude toward condom use with main partners, and condom use with main and nonmain partners. The interaction effects revealed that high, compared to low, self-efficacy motivated more condom use with main and nonmain partners when perceived susceptibility was lower.

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