Well-being in the digital world: an ethical matrix

最近，互联网与不良状态联系在一起：它们通过灌输并非故意选择的习惯和目标，传播错误和虚假信息，最终导致两极分化和激进化，削弱世界各地的社会凝聚力和民主，从而分散用户对其目标的注意力。在一个高科技世界的背景下，澄清什么是福祉是一项日益紧迫的任务。这一研究项目的总体目标是首次全面了解互联网是如何促进或阻碍人类福祉的。总体预期结果是：(I)建立数字福祉的账户，使我们能够更好地了解数字技术对个人和集体福祉的影响，以及(Ii)制定伦理矩阵，供监管机构和大型科技行业使用，为促进个人和集体福祉的数字环境的发展和治理提供切实可行的政策和设计建议。福祉是什么，它应该如何为公共政策提供信息，这些本质上都是哲学问题。因此，该项目的核心方法论将建立在当代应用哲学的共同方法之上：从事严格的哲学分析，澄清概念，构建和分析论点。但这个项目将不限于哲学分析，因为它还将收集相关的实证数据，并与实验心理学、计算机科学或社会学的研究人员建立联系，这些研究人员可以提供对最新技术的专家洞察力。

Lately, the internet has been connected to states of ill-being: they distract users from their purposes by instilling habits and goals that have not been deliberately chosen, spread mis- and disinformation which ultimately lead to polarization and radicalization and to a weakening of social cohesion and democracies worldwide. Clarifying what well-being is in the context of a highly technological world is an increasingly pressing task. The overall objective of this research project is to offer the first comprehensive understanding of how the internet contributes to fostering or hampering human well-being. The overall expected results are to (i) develop an account of digital well-being that could allow us to better understand the impact of digital technologies on individual and collective well-being and (ii) to develop an ethical matrix to be used by regulatory bodies and the Big Tech industry to offer practical policy and design suggestions for the development and governance of digital environments that foster individual and collective well-being. What well-being is and how it should inform public policy are essentially philosophical questions. Thus, the core methodology of this project will build on a common approach in contemporary applied philosophy: engaging in rigorous philosophical analysis, clarifying concepts, constructing and analyzing arguments. But this project will not be limited to philosophical analysis, as it will also gather relevant empirical data, as well as establishing linkages with researchers in experimental psychology, computer science or sociology which can provide expert insight into the state of the art.