Understanding Your Digital Life
Explore how digital technologies shape your daily habits, attention, emotions, and interactions, and learn to evaluate your own relationship with technology.
Prerequisites
No previous knowledge is required. Learners only need an interest in understanding and improving their digital habits.
Learning Outcomes
Identify personal digital habits and usage patterns; understand how digital environments influence attention and behaviour; recognize signs of unhealthy digital habits; evaluate the positive and negative effects of technology on everyday life.
Skills
Digital Wellbeing, Self-Awareness
Bibliography
Orben, A. (2020) ‘Teenagers, screens and social media: a narrative review of reviews and key studies’, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 55, pp. 407–414.
Newport, C. (2019) Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. New York: Portfolio.
Framework
Digital wellbeing fundamentals → Understanding digital habits → Attention and distraction → Social media and online behaviour → Personal digital habits assessment → Reflection and action plan.
Units withing this Module
Mapping Your Digital Habits
Examine how, when, and why you use digital technology and identify the habits that have the greatest impact on your daily life.
