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Flourishing in the Digital Era: Building Collective Well-being in Online Communities

Title
Flourishing in the Digital Era: Building Collective Well-being in Online Communities
Creator
Sankar, Mallika; Annamalai, Sumathi; Augustine, Jais Merlin P.; Jayaprakash, Lakshmi
Description
The advent of the digital era has greatly changed the ways communities interact with one another and the ways they are formed, as well as offering new opportunities for collective flourishing. This chapter examines the impact of social media, digital classrooms, online workspaces, and technology-based platforms like Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality towards collective flourishing and to see how they can help build communities and support collective well-being in virtual environments. The chapter also looks at the impacts of these systems in digital fatigue, misinformation, and social exclusion on the one hand and how these are encouraging teamwork, collaboration, as well as shared development on the other. This advocates the balance in digital usage in real-life interactions and engagements to support sustainable collective flourishing in this new era. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
Source
Collective Flourishing in India: Culture, Social Cohesion and Community Well-being;pp.257-275
Date
01-01-2025
Publisher
Springer Nature
Subject
Collective flourishing; Collective wellbeing; Digital wellbeing; Online communities
Coverage
Sankar M., Indian Council of Social Science Research, Ministry of Education, Government of India, Delhi, New Delhi, India; Annamalai S., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Karnataka, Bangalore, India; Augustine J.M.P., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Karnataka, Bangalore, India; Jayaprakash L., Department of Business Administration, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kerala, Cochin, India
Rights
Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library
Relation
ISBN: 978-981952333-7; 978-981952332-0;
Format
online
Language
English
Type
Book chapter

Citation

Sankar, Mallika; Annamalai, Sumathi; Augustine, Jais Merlin P.; Jayaprakash, Lakshmi, “Flourishing in the Digital Era: Building Collective Well-being in Online Communities,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed June 17, 2026, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/24119.

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