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Digital Differences Exploring ‘Digital Natives and Immigrants’ helped to provide some insight into the various ways people perceive and use the Web. But access to the necessary technology is far from equal across the globe. This is what ‘Digital Differences’ aims to explain. Research suggests there exists an abundance of factors affecting an individual’s likelihood to use the Web and thus, their online practices (University of Southampton, 2017). Continue reading →

When initially tasked with evaluating my digital literacies and presenting them in a blog post, I didn’t anticipate how challenging it would actually be, despite considering myself highly computer competent. What I didn’t realise entering this module from an Economics background – there are various skills I rarely exercise, such as my creativity. Continue reading →

When initially tasked with evaluating my digital literacies and presenting them in a blog post, I didn’t anticipate how challenging it would actually be, despite considering myself highly computer competent. What I didn’t realise entering this module from an Economics background – there are various skills I rarely exercise, such as my creativity. Continue reading →

Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants The internet was created over two decades ago. For some, this is just a small fraction of their lifetime; for others, they have not known a life without it. This fact led Prensky (2001) to believe there existed a negative correlation between digital competence and age. Continue reading →

Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants The internet was created over two decades ago. For some, this is just a small fraction of their lifetime; for others, they have not known a life without it. This fact led Prensky (2001) to believe there existed a negative correlation between digital competence and age. Continue reading →

Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants The internet was created over two decades ago. For some, this is just a small fraction of their lifetime; for others, they have not known a life without it. This fact led Prensky (2001) to believe there existed a negative correlation between digital competence and age. Continue reading →