Eine neue Studie mit fast 50.000 Menschen in 30 Ländern zeigt, dass je technisch versierter Sie sind und ob Sie ein Millennial oder gebildeter sind, desto mehr digitale Bedenken haben Sie hinsichtlich Privatsphäre, Fehlinformationen und Work-Life-Balance im digitalen Zeitalter.
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I’ve linked to the press release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2592771
From the linked article:
Tech savvy users have most digital concerns
Millennials with advanced digital skills report heightened concerns over privacy, misinformation, and work-life balance in the digital age
Digital concerns around privacy, online misinformation, and work-life boundaries are highest among highly educated, Western European millennials, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and the University of British Columbia.
The research, published in Information, Communication & Society, also found individuals with higher levels of digital literacy are the most affected by these concerns.
For the study, the researchers used from the European Social Survey (ESS) – a project that collects nationally representative data on public attitudes, beliefs and behaviour, from thousands of people across Europe every two years.
They analysed responses from nearly 50,000 people in 30 countries* between 2020 and 2022.
They found millennials (those aged 25–44 in 2022) reported greater concerns, compared to younger (15–24) and older adults (75+). They found no significant differences in the level of digital concerns between men and women, nor between income groups or between urban and rural residents.
Across the board, people were more concerned about the potential harms of digital technologies than not. Bulgaria was the only country in the study that did not exceed the mid-point (0.5) on the digital concern scale (0–1). Of all the countries studied, digital concern was lowest in Bulgaria (with a score of 0.47) and highest in the Netherlands (0.74), followed by the UK (0.73).
Compared with native-born citizens, migrants reported lower levels of digital concern, and those who were in work had a lower level of digital concerns than those out of work. People with middle/high school education and those with a university degree reported greater levels of worry compared to their peers with no education or only primary school education.
The researchers found that those with greater tech know-how are more concerned about the negative impacts of digitalisation, but this association is only observed among people who use digital technology on most days or on a daily basis.
The findings suggest that individuals may perceive the potential harms of digitalisation as something that is beyond their control. So, the more they know about and are exposed to the issues, the more powerless and concerned they may feel.
The unaware are unaware.
Conclusions: „Ignorance is Bliss“.
Educated people act like educated people.
Yeah and also because those of us that work in the tech industry or adjacent industries can see the trajectory these tools, companies, and culture are moving towards and it is literally dystopian and outside of anything that’s ever happened before.
I do wish stuff like this wouldn’t be passed off as scientific studies, and call it what it is…poll data.
There is a major difference between polls and studies.
Analyzing poll data is still a poll, while a scientific study analyzes actual scientific facts that don’t change on the attitudes of individuals.
„The more literate you are, the more what you read may upset you. More news at 11“
I’m an idiot and I’ve been deeply concerned since MySpace.
Makes sense. You don’t know what you don’t know.