Alienation on Social Media

Abstract

Digital technology has a growing dominance in social relationships. This opinion paper aims, through a selection of information deemed relevant on this topic, to offer a reflection on alienation in the context of social media, as well as, to the extent possible, some of its implications.

Digitainability—Digital Competences Post-COVID-19 for a Sustainable Society

“…The transformations shaped by the digital are not always totally positive and/or predictable [66], and there is always the danger of digital alienation [73]. Furthermore, Without a better understanding of consumer use and behavior patterns related to digital technologies and applications, policy makers will struggle to create the right incentives and policies to ensure that digital technologies deliver on their environmental promise.…”

“…Furthermore, Without a better understanding of consumer use and behavior patterns related to digital technologies and applications, policy makers will struggle to create the right incentives and policies to ensure that digital technologies deliver on their environmental promise. [207] (p. 11) As a way of fighting this possible, and we would even say, probable alienation, it seems essential to us to disseminate knowledge through interdisciplinarity [5,73,136,208,209].…”

“…In this context, the ability to exhibit digital competences or digital literacy is critical, as competences for conscious and intentional participation, not only in consumption but also in digital production in the most diverse areas of life [6,73,74], creating digital citizens [55,59,63]. A clear example is the existence of the "infodemic" in relation to the excess of (mis)information on COVID-19 itself [41,[75][76][77].…”

Digital Society and Digital Sociology: One Thing Leads to the Other

“…There are several challenges facing digital sociology, among which the following are to be highlighted:  Its integration in the interdisciplinarity needed for the study of the digital (15,20,21);  Mobilize in an articulated logic the macro, meso and micro social levels (22)(23)(24)(25);  Study the dark side or negative effects of the digital, such as privacy and security (2,3,26,27); …”

Writing in Science

“…A scientific manuscript is never written in its final form in the first version (Renck Jalongo & Saracho, 2016). This is especially visible in the current context of scientific production and dissemination, in which the process of scientific publishing is undergoing a profound reformulation (Neill, 2019;Sá et al, 2020;Serpa, 2019aSerpa, , 2019b. Examples of this are, among other features, the unstoppable process of open access, the pre-print publication, the rise of open review, the rise of the centrality of the scientific impact and the increasing centrality of social networks (Ferreira & Serpa, 2018c, 2018d.…”