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Abstract：
As the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns forced populations across the world to become completely dependent on digital devices for working, studying, and socializing, there has been no shortage of published studies about the possible negative effects of the increased use of digital devices during this exceptional period. In seeking to empirically address how the concern with digital dependency has been experienced during the pandemic, we present findings from a study of daily self-reported logbooks by 59 university students in Copenhagen, Denmark, over 4 weeks in April and May 2020, investigating their everyday use of digital devices. We highlight two main findings. First, students report high levels of online fatigue, expressed as frustration with their constant reliance on digital devices. On the other hand, students found creative ways of using digital devices for maintaining social relations, helping them to cope with isolation. Such online interactions were nevertheless seen as a poor substitute for physical interactions in the long run. Our findings show how the dependence on digital devices was marked by ambivalence, where digital communication was seen as both the cure against, and cause of, feeling isolated and estranged from a sense of normality.
摘要：
随着新冠肺炎大流行的封锁迫使世界各地的人口完全依赖数字设备工作，研究,和社交，在这个特殊时期，关于数字设备使用增加可能产生的负面影响的已发表研究并不缺乏。为了从经验上解决大流行期间对数字依赖性的担忧，我们从哥本哈根59名大学生的每日自我报告日志的研究中得出的结果，丹麦,在2020年4月和5月的4周时间里，调查他们对数字设备的日常使用情况。我们强调两个主要发现。首先,学生报告高度的在线疲劳，表示对他们不断依赖数字设备感到沮丧。另一方面,学生们发现了使用数字设备维护社会关系的创造性方法，帮助他们应对孤立。然而，从长远来看，这种在线互动被视为物理互动的不良替代品。我们的研究结果表明，对数字设备的依赖是如何表现出矛盾的，在那里，数字通信被视为治愈，和原因，感到孤立，与正常感疏远。
