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Human ‘screenome’ may give insight into human health

人類「螢幕特質」可探究人類健康

精英翻譯社轉自https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1350930

◎劉宜庭

To understand how people use digital media, researchers need to move beyond screen time and capture everything we do and see on our screens.

要了解人們如何使用數位媒體，研究者必須超越螢幕的使用時間，進一步截錄一切我們在螢幕上的所為與所見。

Digital media — in particular, social media — have powerful and invariable effects on human behaviour. Policies and advice must be informed by accurate assessments of media use. These should involve moment-by-moment capture of what people are doing and when, and machine analysis of the content on their screens and the order in which it appears.

數位媒體，尤其是社群媒體，對人類的行為具有威力強大且不會消失的影響。政策和報告必須根據精確的媒體使用評估。而這些評量應該包括時刻截錄人們在什麼時候做了哪些事情，機器分析螢幕顯示的內容與指示。

According to a 2019 systematic review and meta-analysis, over the past 12 years, 226 studies have examined how media use is related to psychological well-being.

根據一項2019年的系統性回顧與統合分析，過去逾12年來，已有226項研究驗證媒體使用與心理福祉有關聯性。

The meta-analysis found almost no systematic relationship between people’s levels of exposure to digital media and their well-being. But almost all of these 226 studies used responses to interviews or questionnaires about how long people had spent on social media.

統合分析發現，人們接觸數位媒體的程度，與他們的心理福祉之間，幾乎沒有一致的關聯性。但226項研究中，幾乎所有研究都使用訪談或問卷調查，讓人們回答曾花多少時間在社群媒體上。