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About digital difference Digital difference is how application of digital technologies change the way of doing things in society nowadays, comparing to the past. It usually occurs when the innovation or new technologies can change the efficiency and effectiveness of communication. In the past, people mostly use paper-based communication such as writing letters or face to face communication. Continue reading →

Social differences and inequalities such as demographics and social classes of an individual determines a lot on how much and how far one’s interaction can get with the web. Older Generation, lower levels of education or lower incomes, are much less likely to use the web. Older people are not exposed to the current modern technology that we use at this age, they have lesser knowledge on how to use the web. Continue reading →

  Digital differences, or digital divide looks into the difference accessibility that one has to the Internet, and the impact that it brings. Factors such as age, disposable income and educational background contribute to this difference. We see a trend in the younger generation, those with higher disposable income and the more educated having more access to the Internet. Continue reading →

What is digital differences? The stark differences between those who were using the internet and those who were not.  (Zickuhr & Smith, 2012) There is a multitude of factors that affect digital differences such as age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social context, educational level, economic status, country of residence, digital literacy level, motivation and attitude. Continue reading →

Over the last decade, there has been a drastic increase in (individual) internet users worldwide from 15.8% in 2005 to 48% in August 2017 (Marketing Charts, 2017). At a glance, the figures may look good as almost half of the world’s population is using the internet. However, not many of us actually thought about why the other half of the population does not use the internet or have access to it. Continue reading →

As the society moves towards the digital age, many of us have the privilege to have access to the internet and experience the virtual life on the technologies. However, not all of us have the same privileged enough to do so due to several factors. Let’s look into some data collected from the internet: DIGITAL DIFFERENCES VS. AGE Following the data, it can be derived that as the age increases, the respondents prefer using/accessing different types of digital platform. Continue reading →

It is 2017 and many of us take the access and usage of the Internet for granted, because it comes by so easily for us. Yet, 53% of the world’s population are not using the internet (as of 2016). Additionally, In the UK, it is reported that just over 10% of the population were non-users of the Internet. Continue reading →

The impact of “Digital Differences” What are digital differences? And how does it affect us? Digital differences are generally what makes each of us, as web users, different from the rest. These differences are usually caused by the amount of access we have to the web, usually factoring in demographics, disposable income and social status. Continue reading →

In our generation, the web has been deeply embedded in our daily lives that it is deemed as a necessity in our work, social lives or education. The main aspect that I will be elaborating on today would be how Digital Differences has impacted on me in terms of education attainment. From here, we can see that there is an increasing trend of internet adoption even if digital differences on internet interaction still exists in terms of age, gender, class, race and economic culture. Continue reading →