Digital Lifestyles: Ethics, Well-being and the Future of Online Life
An Impact Event by ESDiT
Date: November 19, 2025
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Location: Social Impact Factory, Vredenburg 40, Utrecht.
We live in an era defined by digital experiences. How do our online lives raise new ethical questions about the way we live, work, play, and connect?
Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion on digital ethics, digital leisure, and digital well-being, organised by the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT) research programme.
Together, we’ll explore how our digital lifestyles influence not just what we do online, but who we are, and who we aspire to become.
This is more than a conversation about technology: it’s an invitation to reflect on the human side of digital life.
Register here: esdit.nl/event/digital-lifestyles
Guest Speakers
Dr. Florence M. Chee
Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago
Director, Center for Digital Ethics & Policy (CDEP)
Iris Visser
Organisational Anthropologist & Digital Wellbeing Consultant
Digitaal in Balans
Lyanne Uhlhorn
Researcher, Wellbeing and Digital Technologies
ESDiT/ Eindhoven University of Technology
Moderator
Dr. Radhika Mittal
ESDiT Programme Manager
Strategy, Impact and Public Engagement
About our speakers
Florence M. Chee is Associate Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago, where she is also Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Centre for Digital Ethics and Policy (CDEP). Internationally recognised as a speaker, writer, and advisor, her sociotechnical research informs design, development, and policy decisions in digital contexts. She is the founding director of the Social & Interactive Media Lab (SIMLab) in Chicago, USA, and has been named to the Fulbright Specialist Roster for 2025-2028. Her recent work focuses on the US and Swiss game industries, supported by grant-funded projects in Switzerland.
Iris Visser holds a bachelor’s degree in Education from InHolland University of Applied Sciences and a master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Radboud University. Since completing the Consciously Digital Institute Leadership Certification programme in 2019, she has been offering workshops and programmes on digital balance within organisations. Her work focuses on organisational culture, digital well-being, and sedentary behaviour, exploring how both individuals and teams can improve the physical and mental health of knowledge workers.
Lyanne Uhlhorn is a PhD candidate in Philosophy and Ethics at Eindhoven University of Technology and a research associate with the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT) consortium. Her research explores the conceptual and normative foundations of digital well-being, focusing on how digital technologies shape self-construction and human flourishing. She holds a BSc in Creative Technology from the University of Twente and an MA in Philosophy of Mind and Psychology from Tilburg University. Bridging theory and practice, Uhlhorn engages with both academic and public debates on digital ethics, contributing through talks and projects such as the Future of Digital-Well-being conference and Next Nature’s Digital Wellness exhibition at Evoluon, Eindhoven. She is currently collaborating with researchers at the University of Munich on TikTok health (mis)information.
About ESDiT
ESDiT is a 10-year international research programme uniting seven academic institutions to conduct breakthrough research at the intersections of philosophy, technology, and society. Funded by the NWO Gravitation Programme, ESDiT seeks to develop a deep understanding of emerging technologies as socially disruptive forces, exploring how they challenge and reshape fundamental concepts and values that guide our social and political order.
The programme is structured around nine research lines: Art; Conceptual Disruption; Democracy, Justice & Solidarity; Human Nature, Agency & Autonomy; Intercultural Philosophy; Nature & Sustainability; New Methods for Ethics; STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics); and Wellbeing, Health & Emotions. Together, these lines examine the broad societal, cultural, and philosophical implications of technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and climate engineering, aiming to inform responsible innovation and public engagement.
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