Digital Wellbeing and its Regulation for Children and Young People
Nansen, Bjorn and Sandberg, Helena LU
(2025)
In TechReg Chronicle
p.2-9
- Abstract (Swedish)
- This paper examines digital wellbeing as an evolving, mul-tifaceted concept shaped by technological design, data practices, and policy measures. Focusing on children and young people, it explores how digital wellbeing is governed through individual, platform, and government regulation. The technological dimension is foregrounded through well-being management tools such as screen-time dashboards, and apps that promote self-monitoring and mindfulness. These tools reveal tensions between self-regulation and manipulation, wellbeing and commercialization. Platform regulation highlights how interface and algorithmic design influence user behavior and wellbeing, while government policy seeks to implement more child-centric policies such as those... (More)
- This paper examines digital wellbeing as an evolving, mul-tifaceted concept shaped by technological design, data practices, and policy measures. Focusing on children and young people, it explores how digital wellbeing is governed through individual, platform, and government regulation. The technological dimension is foregrounded through well-being management tools such as screen-time dashboards, and apps that promote self-monitoring and mindfulness. These tools reveal tensions between self-regulation and manipulation, wellbeing and commercialization. Platform regulation highlights how interface and algorithmic design influence user behavior and wellbeing, while government policy seeks to implement more child-centric policies such as those in the EU Digital Services Act and Australia’s Chil-dren's Online Privacy Code. Across these domains, digital wellbeing emerges not simply as a matter of personal dis-cipline but as a structural and systemic issue embedded in the infrastructures of digital technology. Ensuring that digi-tal systems support rather than compromise young users’ wellbeing remains a defining societal challenge of the twen-ty-first century. (Less)
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