Woodlands Regional Library (Programme Zone Level 1)
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Free Admission
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About the Programme
Feeling drained? Stressed? Anxious? You need a digital wellness check ASAP! Learn how to evaluate and enhance your own digital well-being in this hands-on workshop with experts from the National University of Singapore.
In today's era of technological advancement, digital devices and technologies are a ubiquitous and inseparable part of our everyday lives — we use them to communicate; to shop and transact; to work and do business; to track our health and fitness; to keep up to date with current affairs and to engage in social media activism. Yet, now that technologies permit us to be “permanently online and permanently connected”, we are confronted with a new challenge: How do we achieve a healthy balance between connectivity and disconnectivity? Or, in other words: How can we attain digital wellbeing?
Join us in this workshop where we will discuss the importance of digital wellbeing and share about the Living Well Digitally project and Digital Wellbeing Indicator Framework (DWIF), a novel instrument developed by researchers from the National University of Singapore’s Centre from Trusted Internet and Community (NUS-CTIC). Through this workshop, you will:
- Understand digital wellbeing and how it impacts various aspects of everyday life;
- Assess your digital wellness and receive a downloadable personalized, individual profile assessment with your very own Digital Wellbeing score;
- Gain resources and recommendations to learn how you can craft and maintain a healthy, balanced relationship with technology to “live well digitally” in the age of digitalization.
About the Speakers
- Professor Natalie Pang, National University of Singapore
- Professor Audrey Yue, National University of Singapore
- Professor Zhang Renwen, National University of Singapore
Natalie Pang is Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Communications and New Media Department (CNM), Principal Investigator at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community, and University Librarian at NUS Libraries, at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is a researcher and educator in digital citizenship and well-being, and digital humanities. She works on translation research with government and intergovernmental agencies, tech companies and non-profits, and internationally, serves as a member of the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab, expert in the Pacific Forum Women Experts Directory, and Global Fellow at Missions Publiques.
Audrey Yue is Professor and Head of the Department of Communications and New Media, and Deputy Director of the NUS Centre for Trusted Internet and Community at the National University of Singapore. She is a humanities and social sciences scholar specialising in media cultural studies and policy. For the past two decades, she has conducted collaborative research with government and non-profit arts, culture and social services agencies in Singapore, Australia and South Korea to develop evaluation indicators for inclusive citizen participation.
Zhang Renwen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and New Media at National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on the health and social implications of digital technologies, with a particular focus on well-being and social connectedness. Dr. Zhang has worked closely with clinical scientists, computer scientists, and designers on various projects, and by integrating qualitative and quantitative methods, she seeks to uncover insights that can inform the design of socio-technical systems for more empowering and beneficial human-computer interactions.
Onsite Programme/Event Administrative Information
- All participants are required to register for a ticket. Each ticket admits 1 person only. Please present your ticket when you enter the library and the event venue.
- Arrive 10 mins before the session commences. Seats of late attendees may be given to those in the waitlist. Walk-ins are subject to availability.
- NLB reserves the right to deny entry to participants who do not abide by the ground rules.
- Please note that photos and/or videos of this programme and its participants may be taken.
- Please bring along a device that has internet connection (e.g., laptop, mobile phone, tablet). You may either connect to Wireless@SGx or use your personal mobile data.
- Please note that presentation slides may be available during or after the programme, depending on the programme. Where applicable, only participants who attend the programme can have access to the slides via instructions given during the programme.