Wynia, Ryan2023-05-222023-05-222017-12-012018-05-01https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/38765Positive Computing literature does not consider the complex implications stemming from the evidence of computing technologies’ harmful effects. Moreover, present approaches to integrating well-being science into the design of interactive systems are built on deficit-oriented models. In response, a transversal, social constructionist paradigm of Positive Computing sensitive to the social complex and views technology as a part ofcivilization as a living, human construction is explored as a means of advancing the Positive Computing domain. The work argues the well-being of civilization needs to be routinely re-secured through the development of a metacognitive, affirmative competency that recognizessocial systems as capable of creating their own realities. To effectuate the change, adoption of an integral awareness of the socio-technical complex and a new, positively oriented model of design for interactive computing technologies are proposed.Thesispositive technologypositive computingpositive designwell-being technologynurturant technologiestechnology for well-beingtechnology for human flourishingtechnology and well-beingtechnology and happinessaffective computingsocial media and well-beingpositive paradoxtechnology addictiondigital ethicstechnology ethicsBusiness Law, Public Responsibility, and EthicsCommunication Technology and New MediaDigital HumanitiesMass CommunicationOther AnthropologyOther BusinessOther CommunicationOther PsychologyScience and Technology StudiesSocial and Cultural AnthropologySocial MediaTechnology and InnovationTheory and PhilosophyDissertation/Thesis