Abstract
Background: Digital meditation platforms have rapidly expanded access to contemplative practices, yet relatively little research has examined how users spontaneously experience guided meditation within open digital environments.
- Title
- Digital Equanimity: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of User Experiences of Compassion-Based Meditation on a Global Digital Platform
- Creators - without role
- Joey Weber - University of Greater Manchester, Health and Social Care
- Publication Details
- Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science
- Publisher
- Springer
- Data Availability Statement (DAS)
- The dataset analysed during the current study consists of publicly available user comments and engagement metrics associated with meditation recordings on the Insight Timer platform. An anonymised dataset of extracted comments and analytic coding materials is available from the author upon reasonable request.
- Identifiers
- 9986620808841; 2366-5963
- Copyright
- This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41347-026-00715-2
- Academic Unit
- Health and Social Care
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Electronic publication date
- 08/09/2026
- Date accepted
- 31/08/2026