ICCA: Digital Mindfulness and Healthy Use
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: ICCA: Identity Constructed Communication ArchitectureVolume V: Psychology, Autonomy & Digital HabitusPaper: ICCA: Digital Mindfulness and Healthy UseDigital mindfulness is the practice of engaging with technology in a way that preserves autonomy, reduces cognitive load and prevents compulsive use. Modern digital systems undermine mindfulness by observing behaviour, predicting intent and shaping attention. These systems create compulsive loops, emotional fatigue and a persistent sense of digital pressure. They replace intentional use with reactive use and replace human agency with algorithmic steering. ICCA restores digital mindfulness by eliminating identity visibility, behavioural metadata, continuity, correlation, inference and prediction. Trustless systems remove the psychological burden of being observed, dissolve compulsive triggers and create an environment in which digital interaction becomes deliberate, calm and healthy. This paper examines how surveillance‑based systems erode digital mindfulness and how ICCA re‑establishes it as a structural condition rather than a behavioural aspiration.
Source: Figshare
Author: Karl A L Smith
Language: English
Topic: Digital Media and Philosophy
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204836889