Digital Wellbeing Aspect 3: Your Digital Creativity stands for a balanced participation in content creation online.
Digital Wellbeing Aspect 2: Digital Technologies stands for a good understanding of digital landscapes and tools: principles and functions of social media platforms, online interactions, wearable and smart tech, AI, bots and robots and other technologies.
Digital Wellbeing Aspect 1: Your Digital Literacy is all about your personal experiences and active education.
The more competent you are in using digital technologies, the more informed choices you can make about your wellbeing.
Why do we need Digital Wellbeing?
In the last few years, we have experienced a significant shift in how we relate to digital technologies. Instead of biased, stigmatising technophobia, we are finally opening up our perspectives on the positive or more complex impact of the digital age on our health and wellbeing. The innovation in digital technology entered many aspects of our daily lives and, in 2023, also made AI solutions relatively accessible.
Thus we need to pay attention to how all those changes affect us.
How do we practice Digital Wellbeing?
Practising digital wellbeing can come in many areas of our interconnected lives, and each of us will have a very different perspective, experience, skills and willingness to engage with the topic. For some of us, this is a very natural, fluid progression of our work and life. For others, it can feel incredibly overwhelming to embrace the new, to change, to learn how digital technologies work and what they mean for our individual and collective health.
Welcome to our May Newsletter. How are you doing? As we enter May, I am becoming aware that the summer is near, and so is the midway through 2023. Time flies, and this month I am having many conversations about achievements, accomplishments and deadlines.
This month we are dedicating this space to reflect on our Digital Wellbeing model. What is Digital Wellbeing? At Voxel Hub, we define digital wellbeing as a process of active, informed decision-making to improve our sense of wellbeing in the digital age.
This week, I was blessed with good weather, so I could sit out in the garden and enjoy the border designed in all shades of green – all to rest our eyes from the screens now and again. I spend every free moment outside simply because the birds are so loud that each second out there feels like a blessing of a bird song – I am now posting it all on TikTok, astonished to see how many people resonate with those beautiful tunes.
Good evening to you all. As we move into May and some of us celebrate Beltane, I hope you are enjoying Nature more and more.
In our park, everything is growing and blooming. The park’s edges are decorated with pink, white and blue bluebells. It’s snowing cherry tree petals. It smells of gorgeous hawthorn.
Good morning. I hope this weekend is soft for you. Every spring here in the UK, there is one day when Mother Nature wakes up. Just like in Mexico on the first day of rain in autumn when the dust is finally gone, and the flowers shine in their colour palettes, we have one “opening” day in the UK. I cannot pin it down to one particular date – like Easter; it is a bit movable. Many people miss it; it is so subtle. You need to pay attention to the leaves, flower buds or specific plants in your garden and local park to see them open up so vigorously that day (in our garden, the fig tree makes this announcement most clearly). However, if – like me – you live attuned with Nature – that magical day feels like a carnival of life. Every single living creature suddenly opens up to the opportunity of upcoming warm and sunny days. Leaves double in size. Birds sing louder. You can feel it in your cells, too. Summer is on the way.