Affiliation:
1. Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
Abstract
Digital well-being and digital burnout refer to the positive and negative effects of digital technology use including digital social media on people's mental, physical, and psychological lives. The present study aims at exploring the ways through which digital social media can affect a group of EFL teachers' digital well-being and digital burnout. The thematic analysis of the data gathered through digital ethnography, focus group, and discussion indicated three organizing themes of digital well-being, i.e., professional information, network support and solidarity, and four organizing themes of digital burnout, i.e., technostress, job dissatisfaction, job disinterest, and confirmation bias. Some practical suggestions are provided to improve digital well-being and mitigate digital burnout.