Toward a Research Agenda on Digital Media and Humanity Well-Being

Chavalarias David (1, 2) , Beatrice De Gelder (3) , Guido Caldarelli (4) , Melanie Dulong de Rosnay (5) , Antonio A. Casilli (6) , Alexandre Delanoë (1) , Luisa Fassi (7) , Divina Frau-Meigs (8) , Bertrand Jouve (9) , Andrzej Nowak (10) , Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel (11) , Camille Roth (12) , Mel Slater (13) , Nahla Ben Amor (14) , Anna Boros (15) , Michela Brunori (16) , Maria Jose Brites (17) , Diminescu Dana (6) , Caroline Datchary (9) , Silvestri Fabrizio (18) , Laura Hernandez (19) , Pawel Horodecki (20) , Sirkku Kotilainen (21) , Jean Lassègue (22) , Emmanuel Lazega (23) , Quentin Lobbé (1) , Julian Mcdougall (24) , Paul Lukowicz (25) , Darian Meacham (26) , Elisa Omodei (27) , Amy Orben (28) , Geoffroy Patriarche (29) , David Pearce (11) , Maria Gabriella Pediconi (16) , Savino Romani (16) , Jerôme Sackur (30) , Valérie Schafer (31) , Erika Stael Von Holstein (32) , Aureli Soria-Frisch (33) , Luca Tummolini (34) , Mirko Zichichi (11) , Mark Buchanan , David Chavalarias (35, 1, 2)

1 ISC-PIF - Institut des Systèmes Complexes - Paris Ile-de-France
2 CAMS - Centre d'Analyse et de Mathématique sociales
3 Université de Maastricht
4 University of Ca’ Foscari [Venice, Italy]
5 CIS - Centre Internet et Société
6 IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris
7 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
8 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
9 LISST - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires
10 UW - University of Warsaw
11 UPM - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
12 CMB - Centre Marc Bloch
13 UB - Universitat de Barcelona
14 Institut Supérieur de Gestion Tunis, Tunisia
15 University of Warsaw, Poland
16 University of Urbino
17 Lusófona University [Lisbon]
18 University of Rome
19 LPTM - UMR 8089 - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modélisation
20 GUT - Gdańsk University of Technology
21 TUT - Tampere University of Technology [Tampere]
22 LIAS - IMM - Centre de Linguistique Anthropologique et Sociolinguistique - Institut Marcel Mauss
23 Sciences Po - Sciences Po
24 BU - Bournemouth University [Poole]
25 German Research Center for AI
26 Maastricht University [Maastricht]
27 CEU - Central European University [Budapest, Hongrie]
28 MRC CBU - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
29 SLU - Saint Louis University
30 LSCP - Laboratoire de sciences cognitives et psycholinguistique
31 uni.lu - Université du Luxembourg = University of Luxembourg = Universität Luxemburg
32 Re-Imagine Europa
33 Neuroscience BU, Starlab Barcelona
34 ICST-CNR - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
35 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

In the 2020s, an American citizen will spend an average of 6h35 a day on social media, compared to 3h35 for television. As for social networks, which were non-existent less than 20 years ago, about 40\% of US citizens use them at least once a week as source of news and they now have an estimated 60-70% penetration rate worldwide.This means that in less than a generation, digital media have radically transformed the way we inform and socialize, and that this transformation is still ongoing as older generations are gradually replaced by digital natives. From a scientific point of view, this transformation generates many phenomena to be studied, and even "unknown unknowns" whose effects will be revealed only with time.This roadmap covers the issues, impacts and future challenges of digital media as they relate to human well-being in the broadest sense, from mental health to the health of democracies.Its objective is to initiate a new interdisciplinary research community in this field, to define a research agenda, to formulate recommendations for future digital media policy and design, and to inspire future EU calls for projects to develop innovative and transdisciplinary research on these societal challenges.The roadmap is the result of the EU-funded project DIGEING conducted by an international consortium with the help of an interdisciplinary advisory group of international experts. Its writing was based on an hybrid methodology developped at CNRS and powered by GarganText, where the advisory group acted both as catalyst and guide for a larger collaborative mapping of the state-of-the-art and identification of challenges of that emerging field. More than forty researchers from fourteen European countries have contributed to the writing of this roadmap.This roadmap is complemented by online interactive maps that can be used by researchers to situate themselves in this evolving scientific landscape and by research funding agencies to launch new calls for projects.

Mots clés: Digital media; well-being; online social networking sites; roadmap; socio-semantic networks; mental health; democracy

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Informatique [cs]; Mathématiques [math]; Science non linéaire [physics]; Physique [physics]; Sciences cognitives; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Économie et finance quantitative [q-fin]

Chavalarias David, Beatrice De Gelder, Guido Caldarelli, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Antonio A. Casilli, et al.. Toward a Research Agenda on Digital Media and Humanity Well-Being. CNRS; Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (European Commission). 2023. ⟨hal-04091733v2⟩