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pith:AWX3GPEC

pith:2026:AWX3GPECVVPVYCW7UFTYT3QXV4

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The Capacity to Care: Designing Social Technology for Sustained Engagement With Societal Challenges

Angela D. R. Smith, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Bingxu Han, Dennis Wang, Elizabeth `Lizzie' Li, Gillian R. Hayes, Jaewon Kim, Jiaying `Lizzy' Liu, Jose A. Guridi, Lindsay Popowski, Louisa Conwill, Meryl Ye, Susan Wyche, Theia Henderson, Yasmine Kotturi

Dominant social media architectures stall caring about societal challenges at initial awareness, blocking paths to sustained engagement.

arxiv:2605.05651 v2 · 2026-05-07 · cs.HC

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Claims

C1strongest claim

Dominant social media architectures stall the caring process at its earliest phase.

C2weakest assumption

That Tronto's care ethics framework directly maps onto digital platform interactions and that design changes can meaningfully increase sustained engagement without introducing new forms of burnout or disengagement.

C3one line summary

Social media architectures often prevent the full caring process by stopping at awareness, and new designs are needed to support responsibility, competence, and community for sustained engagement with large-scale challenges.

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First computed	2026-05-22T01:04:04.704079Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

05afb33c82ad5f5c0adfa16789ee17af3d2fdbbf97656dab6202ecf3219ea7e0

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.05651 · arxiv_version: 2605.05651v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.05651 · pith_short_12: AWX3GPECVVPV · pith_short_16: AWX3GPECVVPVYCW7 · pith_short_8: AWX3GPEC

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AWX3GPECVVPVYCW7UFTYT3QXV4 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 05afb33c82ad5f5c0adfa16789ee17af3d2fdbbf97656dab6202ecf3219ea7e0

Canonical record JSON

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