RT Article
T1 Technological solutions to loneliness—Are they enough?
JF Bioethics
VO 37
IS 3
SP 275
OP 284
A1 Lederman, Zohar
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1836297122
AB Loneliness is a major public health concern, particularly during pandemics such as Covid. It is extremely common, and it poses a major risk to human health. Technological solutions including social media, robots, and virtual reality have been advocated and implemented to relieve loneliness, and their use will undoubtedly increase in the near future. This paper explores the use of technological solutions from a normative perspective, asking whether and to what extent such measures should indeed be relied upon. The conclusion is that technological solutions are unquestionably part of the solution to loneliness, but that they cannot and should not constitute the whole solution. It is important to note that this is not a straw-man argument, as several organizations and scholars have strictly focused on such technological solutions for loneliness.
K1 Virtual Reality
K1 Technology
K1 Social Media
K1 Responsibility
K1 Loneliness
DO 10.1111/bioe.13096