5.8 Positives and negatives of digital social wellbeing

This section of the course concludes with another Jisc infographic, this time summarising the positives and negatives of digital social wellbeing. Note that many of these points apply more widely to all types of hybrid working, not exclusively to digital work.

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Figure 10 Digital social wellbeing.

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This infographic is headed ‘Digital social wellbeing’. It’s then split into two columns, with ‘positives’ and ‘negatives’. The positives are: preventing isolation; building and maintaining relationships; reducing loneliness; full participation and connection with family; friends and wider communities; increased opportunities for inclusion (eg disabled people). The negatives are: cyberbullying; online grooming (eg sex, radicalisation); exclusion and/or accessibility (eg gender, age, poverty).

Figure 10 Digital social wellbeing.

As you can see from the figure, Jisc highlights increased opportunities for inclusion as one of the positives of digital social wellbeing – and exclusion and accessibility as negatives. The next section of the course explores these topics.