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The concept of digital “visitors” and “residents”.
The model for seeing online users as either “visitors” or “residents” was developed from Prensky’s Digital natives and Immigrants model. This model saw people that had been brought up with/using the web classed as Natives because they could use and understand it easily. While older generations that did not grow up with it would find it difficult to adapt to it and thus they would feel like they were trying to speak a second language.
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