Digital Self Research Articles

European Citizenship and the Concept of Digital Self

Postmodern theory can be viewed as a new roadmap for interconnection between European citizenship and digitalization. This paper emphasizes that the concept of the digital self based on the postmodernist idea of ​​identity might serve as a roadmap for the relationship between digitalization and European citizenship. In addition to providing a framework for the study of EU citizenship and digital citizenship, postmodernism can be used to challenge essentialist claims about these two concepts by presenting an anti-foundationalist perspective that takes heterogeneous and fluid identities into account Another roadmap for the interconnection of European citizenship and digitization is the better development of digital human rights in the European context. This paper emphasizes that the main shortcoming of the European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles is that it does not include the concept of human dignity on which the idea of human rights is based and which is emphasized by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and other European legal documents. Nevertheless, it should be remembered that the idea of human rights is dynamic and constantly evolving.

Role of community pharmacy and pharmacists in self care in Sweden

BackgroundSelf care is an important concept, which is increasingly being applied by policy makers on a large scale. It is associated with improved health literacy and technological advances. Community pharmacy practitioners are easily accessible for self care counselling, purchase of non-prescription products and for referrals to other healthcare providers. ObjectiveTo describe self care policies and strategies in Swedish healthcare authorities, pharmaceutical organizations and community pharmacy. MethodsA search was conducted to retrieve self care policy documents and strategies in Swedish healthcare authorities, pharmaceutical organizations and community pharmacy on respective websites, as well as personal contacts with key persons in pharmaceutical organizations and community pharmacy practice. ResultsA new law on self care was adopted by the Swedish Parliament becoming effective in 2023. The law defines self care as a healthcare measure that has been assessed by a treating licenced healthcare practitioner to be possible to be performed by the patient him/herself. The law includes a wide range of measures. According to a Government Commission that followed Sweden's the National Pharmaceutical Strategy's Action Plan in 2018, the Medical Products Agency (MPA) was assigned to establish requirements of qualifications in self care counselling. In its report in late 2022, the MPA stated that self care counselling by community pharmacy practitioners plays an important role in society. The new requirements are expected to become effective in mid-2023. None of the four community pharmacy chains operating 97% of Sweden's community pharmacies have developed any specific self care policies, although self care counselling and sales of non-prescription products, as well as provision of some primary healthcare services, constitute important components of their operations. Furthermore, all Swedish pharmacies offer several digital self care solutions, supporting people to manage their own health. Neither the Swedish Pharmacy Association, representing most pharmacies, nor the Swedish Pharmacists Association, the trade union, have developed any self care policies. However, the Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry is promulgating Swedish self care reform using a systematic review of self care and which medicines should be over-the-counter. ConclusionsSelf care is not currently established as a core pillar of a Swedish national health strategy. There are further opportunities to enable pharmacists to fulfil their potential in supporting individual wellbeing and promoting self care interventions. A new system needs to be created which fully integrates the promotion of everyday wellbeing, self care for self-treatable conditions and the management of long-term conditions.

A (Post)philosophical Argument on Anti-Art and Digital Transgressions of self-Fashioning. From Dada to Data, or How to Curate Selves on Instagram?

This article tackles the possibility to understand the process of curating the digital self by treating virtual identities as a form of anti-art. The museification of the world engaged by social networks such as Instagram, a platform canonically devoted to visual content, seems to restore the Dada tradition of the photomontage, as well as the turn to the routine of our quotidian existence, aestheticized through live transmissions and daily vlogs. Insta-gramming became a digital practice that progressively installed what Richter used to call “the alienation of photography”, as there is no aesthetic claim for the visual content, but neither a profound ignorance of artistic criteria. Therefore, anonymous masses homogenized as co-performers of life-casting online consume results of a digital curating based on the Dada photomontage, the Futurist appetite for technology and the Surrealist automatic creation or psychic automatism. My argument is that as digital curation progressively shared with vanguards such principles, virtual identities became anti-art objects. Moreover, curating the self is no longer an artistic performance, but rather a social skill. In the last part of my study, I will bring to the spotlight two competitive narrations on digital curation, productive, respectively consumptive curation. In my opinion, these two paradigms raised by Davis are relevant for developing the commodification of the self, as well as new literary practices based on Bourriaud’s relational aesthetics. Consequently, I argue in favour of assuming the curation of the self by digital means as a daily practice entangling creativity and leisure, understood as creleisure, a concept coined by the artist Hélio Oiticica back in 1969. As aesthetics tends to track down such behaviours for their transgressive potential, measuring the historical shift of autocreation from Dada to Data perspectives, philosophy still has to work on the consequences of such phenomena on self-care, self-knowledge, and authenticity.

Everyday digital traces

Our research responds to calls for more engagement with everyday personal data. We used a co-designed, fictional persona called Alex Smith to concretise and represent people's online information to help participants (through role-playing) reflect on data and digital traces. Drawing together four fields of scholarly research concerning personal data: digital traces and the digital self, datafication and dataveillance, mundane, everyday data and the data journey – our aim was to advance understandings of personal data by exploring ordinary people's seemingly innocuous digital traces generated through everyday online interactions. Our paper presents three key findings from our analysis: (1) how ordinary people cope with and manage everyday data; (2) the haunting effects and affects of peer-to-peer surveillance and (3) postdigital identities. We argue that greater attention needs to be paid to everyday digital traces – how they are understood, managed and revealed because this has implications for ordinary people, corporate entities and governments. We contribute to a gap in critical data studies literature that calls for further investigations into ordinary people's engagement with data. We also offer a method that can be adapted for and used with different participant groups, which also supports their awareness of cumulative functions of personal data and potential use by un/known actors.

(Re)Locating Humanness in Information and Communication Technology through Global [Digital] Citizenship Education

The utilization of ICTs in education has become one of the most important pedagogical tools in curriculum, instructions, and management of school operations. This has become more apparent in the surge of the pandemic in the last couple of years. This reflexive paper intends to re[locate] humanness in ICTs by introducing Global Citizenship Education (GCED), which is contained in one of the United Nations’ 17 SDGs 2030 Agenda (SDG 4 [4.7]) combined with Digital Citizenship Education (DCE). Moreover, the concepts of ‘onlife’ and ‘digital self’ will be briefly explained to ground the formation of ‘student identities’ as global and digital citizens without discharging their humanness. This paper will also introduce the importance of ‘translocal spaces’ and ‘third spaces’ as settings and the acknowledgments of ‘multilocalities’ and ‘multivocalities’. Furthermore, challenges and criticisms regarding GCED and DCE in ICTs will be presented with contextualized and reflexive discussions based on the experiences of the author.

Time-varying model of engagement with digital self reporting: Evidence from smoking cessation longitudinal studies.

Insufficient engagement is a critical barrier impacting the utility of digital interventions and mobile health assessments. As a result, engagement itself is increasingly becoming a target of studies and interventions. The purpose of this study is to investigate the dynamics of engagement in mobile health data collection by exploring whether, how, and why response to digital self-report prompts change over time in smoking cessation studies. Data from two ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies of smoking cessation among diverse smokers attempting to quit (N = 573) with a total of 65,974 digital self-report prompts. We operationalize engagement with self-reporting in term of prompts delivered and prompt response to capture both broad and more granular engagement in self-reporting, respectively. The data were analyzed to describe trends in prompt delivered and prompt response over time. Time-varying effect modeling (TVEM) was employed to investigate the time-varying effects of response to previous prompt and the average response rate on the likelihood of current prompt response. Although prompt response rates were relatively stable over days in both studies, the proportion of participants with prompts delivered declined steadily over time in one of the studies, indicating that over time, fewer participants charged the device and kept it turned on (necessary to receive at least one prompt per day). Among those who did receive prompts, response rates were relatively stable. In both studies, there is a significant, positive and stable relationship between response to previous prompt and the likelihood of response to current prompt throughout all days of the study. The relationship between the average response rate prior to current prompt and the likelihood of responding to the current prompt was also positive, and increasing with time. Our study highlights the importance of integrating various indicators to measure engagement in digital self-reporting. Both average response rate and response to previous prompt were highly predictive of response to the next prompt across days in the study. Dynamic patterns of engagement in digital self-reporting can inform the design of new strategies to promote and optimize engagement in digital interventions and mobile health studies.

Analysing the importance of drill artists’ offline environment in the creation of violent online identities

ABSTRACT Drill, a sub-genre of hip-hop that emerged out of Chicago but is now a mainstay of United Kingdom youth street culture, often includes violent lyrics designed to antagonise rivals. This article draws on a longitudinal study with several drill artists to expand the academic understanding of this culture. Within this study, young people’s violent online personas are a response to inhabiting a social space that developed due to a nexus of factors, including social deprivation, a lack of informal guardianship and the rules of the online attention economy. This digital dynamic sees artists competing for viewers’ limited attention by producing exaggerated violent depictions to show cultural competence and embodied street capital as they vie for attention in an antagonistic continuum with other groups. As young people experience social spaces, not governed by the rules of the street, they often realise that their violent online persona’s utility is limited, leading to a rebranding of their digital self. The study concludes that young people’s involvement in online violence is usually a temporary response to the offline social spaces they inhabit. Attempts to address such activities should focus on young people’s offline and online experiences.

Hotel quarantine guest blogs: Unpacking Scheiner's spaces of immobility and implications on urban tourism politics

Hotel quarantine has been a prevalent process over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic as destinations seek to utilise such spaces to uncover potential positive cases within international tourism mobility. Yet, this abruptly designed layer of quarantine is vastly different to what hotels were built for and intended as spaces of leisure and hospitality. In addition, the spaces of immobility and how these are encountered by guests in quarantine are largely under-investigated. Addressing existing knowledge gaps, 15 blogs written from hotel quarantine guests were analysed through the work of Scheiner's spaces of immobility to examine how they negotiated with these spaces. The research revealed three dominant themes of food, health and wellbeing, the digital self, and assurances as key markers of immobility. These outcomes provide theoretical and managerial implications to reconsider urban tourism politics within cities in terms of hotel design and spatiality in the future.

Digital Domestic (Im)material Labor: Managing Waste and Self While Producing Closet Decluttering Videos

This article examines (im)material digital labor essential to the production of closet decluttering videos on YouTube by analyzing two case studies: Leighannsays and Bestdressed. I highlight three interconnected forms of tidying labor, that is, home, data, and waste management, mobilized for influencer work and cultural platform economy. Wardrobe clean-out videos capitalize on both corporeal and affective aspects of housework and content production in the construction and maintenance of the digital self. They also assemble management labor to organize material articles in domestic space, produce/manage multimedia, and construct/amplify digital existence. The essay also discusses the (im)material labor required by the personal and outsourced handling of the disposed’s hereafters as goods and trash outside of the home. Unpacking how closet decluttering video production nests together (im)material tidying labor associated with disparate sectors from home-based platform cultural production to public management of household waste shed lights on imbricated operations of the influencer ecosystem.

Randomized controlled clinical trial of the efficacy of the digital self- help program edupression.com® in mild-to-moderate unipolar depressive patients (eFICASY-study)

Randomized controlled clinical trial of the efficacy of the digital self- help program edupression.com® in mild-to-moderate unipolar depressive patients (eFICASY-study)

МЕТОДОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ ИЗУЧЕНИЯ ОБРАЗА МИРА МОЛОДЕЖИ В ЦИФРОВОМ ТРАНЗИТИВНОМ ОБЩЕСТВЕ

In modern psychology, the study of the socialization of young people is of particular relevance in connection with changing living conditions: the transitivity of society; increased social mobility and sociocultural dynamics in general; expansion into everyday life of digital reality. In psychological studies of the transformations of today’s world, it makes sense to use the terms “image of the world” and “world picture” to focus on various sociocultural aspects of the reality under study. The complexity and diversity of youth worldviews in modern conditions are emphasized, which results in the need to differentiate the cultural and psychological aspects of the development of youth communities within society. The author considers interrelation between the formation of the image of the world and the formation of subjectivity; study of individual differences in the construction and transformation of the picture of the world; dynamics of the world picture in a transitive and digital society. The phenomenon of the digital self and the growing environmental concern of young people in connection with the characteristics of modern times are discussed. Among the methodological issues of studying the image of the world of young people in a digital transitive society, it is necessary to highlight a number of aspects: 1) changing the perspective of psychological research – the movement from a closed psychological laboratory to an open everyday world; 2) switching optics – from the normativity of a stable picture of the world to the normalization of the constancy of changes; 3) rethinking the “image of the world” construct in a transitive society – from focusing on the phenomena of perception and social representations to studying the diversity of worldviews and lifestyles; 4) for the integration of thematic (task-oriented) studies of psychology and social sciences – reliance on a transdisciplinary approach; 5) the invention of relevant constructs and concepts in order to systematize a new phenomenology that characterizes the changed state of modern times and the interaction of young people with the digital environment

A Real-Time Digital Self Interference Cancellation Method for In-Band Full-Duplex Underwater Acoustic Communication Based on Improved VSS-LMS Algorithm

Theoretically, the spectral efficiency of in-band full-duplex underwater acoustic communications (IBFD-UWAC) is twice that of a half-duplex one. However, the actual achievable spectral efficiency of IBFD-UWAC is determined by the performance of the self-interference cancellation (SIC). In addition, the hostile underwater environment poses a challenge to the tracking performance of the SIC due to its complexity and variability. In this paper, we propose a digital SIC method based on the improved variable step-size least mean square (IVSS-LMS) algorithm where we modify the step-size adjustment criterion in the classical LMS filter and establishes a nonlinear relationship with the Sigmoid function to control the step-size using the instantaneous state error, thus improving the robustness and tracking performance of IVSS-LMS. Hardware-in-loop simulation (HLS) based on Simulink® platform verifies the real-time implementability and effectiveness of the proposed IVSS-LMS algorithm. Furthermore, the sea trial results show that the digital SIC method based on the proposed algorithm can be implemented in real-time and the convergence speed, and steady-state performance are significantly improved.

The making of popstar fembots: Participation, co-creation, or online cultural exploitation?

Access to the Internet, technological advances and the digitization of our daily lives have given rise to different forms of cultural participation and artistic expression. These incorporate technologies that make it possible to digitize the human body and the embodiment of a digital self in the form of an avatar. The democratization of these technologies has favored the emergence of a recurring figure, that of the fembot pop star: a virtual influencer, whose field of activity is integrated into that of the music industry and can extend to fields contemporary art or even politics. As a hybrid product resulting from the fusion of the arts, corporate marketing and collaborative computing, combining human and machine, the fembot pop star brings new technical, artistic, social and aesthetic experiences—paving the way for a new ontology of cultural participation as a commercialized collective techno-creativity.

Entangled in the technology-driven borderscape: Border crossers rendered to their digital self

EU management of migration is undergoing an unprecedented transformation because of the use of databases and information systems. Drawing on the concept of border performativity, this article discusses how data is transforming the border. In particular, the article focuses on 1) how the EU JHA databases are evolving, from separate systems each with one purpose to multi-purpose databases, and 2) how the new EU plan – the interoperability regulation – connects and merges biometric and biographical data, as part of a shift from a silo-based approach towards a single centralised information system. The article – based on results of several research projects carried out between 2011 and 2019 adopting mixed methodology – discusses the border crossers’ role in challenging this digital border control, both in light of the current practices of data collection and processing and newly approved EU regulations. The article argues that the transformation of border control practices into practices driven by data processing makes it more difficult for border crossers to manoeuvre the system and legally challenge decisions based on data processing, thus, hampering the transformation of the border from below.

Precision Nomothetic Medicine in Depression Research: A New Depression Model, and New Endophenotype Classes and Pathway Phenotypes, and A Digital Self.

Machine learning approaches, such as soft independent modeling of class analogy (SIMCA) and pathway analysis, were introduced in depression research in the 1990s (Maes et al.) to construct neuroimmune endophenotype classes. The goal of this paper is to examine the promise of precision psychiatry to use information about a depressed person’s own pan-omics, environmental, and lifestyle data, or to tailor preventative measures and medical treatments to endophenotype subgroups of depressed patients in order to achieve the best clinical outcome for each individual. Three steps are emerging in precision medicine: (1) the optimization and refining of classical models and constructing digital twins; (2) the use of precision medicine to construct endophenotype classes and pathway phenotypes, and (3) constructing a digital self of each patient. The root cause of why precision psychiatry cannot develop into true sciences is that there is no correct (cross-validated and reliable) model of clinical depression as a serious medical disorder discriminating it from a normal emotional distress response including sadness, grief and demoralization. Here, we explain how we used (un)supervised machine learning such as partial least squares path analysis, SIMCA and factor analysis to construct (a) a new precision depression model; (b) a new endophenotype class, namely major dysmood disorder (MDMD), which is a nosological class defined by severe symptoms and neuro-oxidative toxicity; and a new pathway phenotype, namely the reoccurrence of illness (ROI) index, which is a latent vector extracted from staging characteristics (number of depression and manic episodes and suicide attempts), and (c) an ideocratic profile with personalized scores based on all MDMD features.

“You Are First a Chinese Citizen, Then A Consumer”: Presenting and Balancing Identities Online as Chinese International Tourists

This paper is based on the analysis of 261 video and word posts collected from four popular social media sites on which Chinese tourists shared their consumption-related experiences during and after the trip. It investigates Chinese international tourists’ diverse presentations of self to a broad audience online through explaining their shopping experiences and product reviews. Tourists are expected to balance multiple identities carefully when they project themselves online as consumers—on the one hand, they present themselves as global consumers and trendsetters who are strategic and savvy; while on the other hand, they still need to preserve and even emphasize their national identity as Chinese patriots. Providing the much-lacking qualitative insight, this study enhances our understanding of international tourists and their consumption behaviors, the construction and presentation of a digital self, and how globalization operates at the micro-level.

Community Colleges Evolve during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Worked, What Did Not Work, and Lessons Learned

ABSTRACT In 2021, community college practitioners, scholars, researchers, and leaders accepted a challenge to document what worked, what did not work, and lessons learned during the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article summarizes the works of 39 authors who collectively wrote 14 peer reviewed papers in areas of leadership, curriculum, funding, social and racial tension, technology and digital access, self, family and community, and health and safety. Readers are challenged to embrace this era with innovative zeal and to continue to document community colleges’ evolutionary changes during this pandemic era.

Analysis on the Application Effect of Psychological Counseling for COVID-19 Patients

The COVID-19 outbreak is a global emergency. The consequences of the pandemic were numerous. Mental health and psychosocial support services have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Innovative solutions such as tele-consultations, digital self - help platforms, novel approaches to ensure supply of psychotropic medicines, and task sharing/shifting for basic psychosocial support, are being used to defeat service disruptions and maintain care for those with psychological conditions.

The Effect of Social Studies Courses on Digital Self Formation in Turkey

The world, which includes all living things from the first human to the present, is based on the process of change and transformation with all its dimensions. It can be stated that this process of change and transformation affects the lives of many living things on earth, as well as remarkable effects on human life. In particular, the digital world, which is one of the important results of technology-based development, can be said to be effective in shaping human life cognitively, psychomotorically and emotionally. This shaping process takes place in educational institutions with the achievements transferred through various fields of study and disciplines. This study, in which the effect of social studies courses on the formation and development process of the digital self-concept, which is based on the cognitive effects of digitalization, was evaluated in line with the perceptions of teachers in Turkey, was designed according to the phenomenological approach, one of the qualitative research methods. The research data were analyzed with the descriptive analysis technique and thematic codes were created based on the findings. A semi-structured interview form prepared by the researchers was used to collect data. The research data, the answers to the questions in the interview form, were collected through online interviews with social studies teachers due to the Covid-19 epidemic in the world and in Turkey. In the study supported by the Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit of İnönü University with the Normal Research Project coded SBA-2019-1755, the data obtained were analyzed and the findings were presented in tables and figures. Considering the findings of the study, it can be said that the social studies teachers who make up the study group have different and remarkable perceptions about the effects of social studies lessons on digital self-creation.

Cyclic Prefix Noise Reduction for Digital Self Interference Cancellation in OFDM-Based In-Band Full-Duplex Wireless Systems

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is the pertinent waveform for current and next generation wireless systems, whose spectral efficiency can be potentially doubled by in-band full-duplex (IBFD) communication. However, in OFDM based IBFD systems, digital self-interference cancellation (DSIC) employed at baseband does not provide sufficient cancellation in the cyclic prefix (CP) region. When the propagation delay between two communicating radios is non-zero, the CP noise affects the data region of the desired signal. In this work, we propose CP noise reduction (CPNR) technique for OFDM based IBFD radios. We have evaluated CPNR with time and frequency domain DSIC schemes via both simulations and MATLAB and FPGA implementations on our Software Defined Radio based IBFD radio. In the laboratory tests, the total suppression of the IBFD radio is improved by 6 dB by employing CPNR in frequency-domain DSIC and EVM for bidirectional communication is improved by up to 5%, allowing realistic propagation delays. In addition to improving the total suppression and EVM performance, CPNR is also shown to enhance the multi-path resiliency of DSIC techniques.