Dono e dolo: dal digital turn al tecnostress

Abstract

Gift and “dolus”: from digital turn to technostress The digital revolution, by reconfiguring our way of being in the world as a stay-always-on, has altered the principle of separation between online and offline. Continuous and unrestricted connection can have negative effects on quality of life and productivity, compromising individual psychosomatic equilibrium. The health effects associated with the pervasive use of digital devices and their applications are often summarised under the term “technostress”. Protracted exposure to an excessive information load determines a response involving the activation of psycho-neuro-endocrine-immunological processes whose alteration plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of the symptoms most frequently associated with technostress. We call this response “e-inflammation”.

Keywords

• gift
• dolus
• e-inflammation