Darko Vaselić, Ljubica Janjetović
University PIM, Faculty of Economics, despota Stefana Lazarevića bb, 78 000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, dvaselic@gmail.com
University PIM, Technical Faculty, despota Stefana Lazarevića bb, 78 000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ljubica.janjetovic@gmail.com.
KRATKI NAUČNI RAD
ISSN 2637-2150
e-ISSN 2637-2614
UDC 316.344.2:004.738.4
DOI 10.7251/STED2401056V
COBISS.RS-ID 140644865
Paper Submitted: 04.03.2024.
Paper Accepted: 13.05.2024.
Paper Published: 30.05.2024.
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Corresponding Author:
Darko Vaselić, University PIM, Faculty of Economics, despota Stefana Lazarevića bb, 78 000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, dvaselic@gmail.com
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ABSTRACT
The digital technological revolution began in the second half of the last century. Its development in the first decades after the discovery of the transistor was rather slow. Acceleration and a wider awareness of the possibilities began to spread after the introduction of the Internet. And then the last two decades brought rapid development of digital technologies and general acceptance in private and business life.
The benefits for individuals, companies, institutions and society as a whole are enormous and unquestionable. Nevertheless, bearing in mind the conducted studies on the degree of digitization of certain areas of society and certain countries, it is considered that the potential is huge. And significant breakthroughs supported by artificial intelligence are still expected.
However, in addition to the undoubted benefits, there are also certain negatives, which are not sufficiently clarified or which are often obscured. Therefore, this paper aimed to determine the attitudes of the users themselves towards digital technologies, and in its last part, it examined the existence of negative effects on the mental health of users of digital technologies.
The results are expected in the part of the examination of the benefits arising from the use of digital technologies. The existence of negative effects on the health of users is not a surprise either. The surprise is the degree of negative impact and lack of corrective action by the user. In other words, users are aware of the negatives that arise from, primarily, the excessive use of digital technologies, but they still do almost nothing to reduce these negative consequences.
Keywords: digital technologies, digital devices, software applications, mental health.
