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Explain the concept of digital “visitors” and “residents” drawing upon your reading and your own online experiences to date in support of the points that you make. Traditionally, an individual’s use of the internet could be defined by using the distinction between that of a digital ‘native’ or digital ‘immigrant’ (Prensky, 2001). Continue reading →

Explain the concept of digital “visitors” and “residents” drawing upon your reading and your own online experiences to date in support of the points that you make. Traditionally, an individual’s use of the internet could be defined by using the distinction between that of a digital ‘native’ or digital ‘immigrant’ (Prensky, 2001). Continue reading →

The titles ‘digital visitors’ and ‘digital residents’ are the evolutionary product of the previously contested titles of ‘digital natives’ and ‘digital immigrants’ devised by Prensky (2001). The previous concepts identified those who had been born into a technologically advanced society as natives who held a monopoly over the ability to utilise the web. Continue reading →

Explain the concept of digital “visitors” and “residents” drawing upon your reading and your own online experiences to date in support of the points that you make.   The concept of Digital “Residents” and Digital “Visitors” was developed as an advancement of Prensky’s digital “Natives” and “Immigrants”. Continue reading →

The concept of the digital visitor and the digital resident is a progression from earlier work submitted by Prensky (2001) in which he suggested the existence of the digital native and immigrant. Continue reading →

Question: Explain the concept of digital “visitors” and “residents” drawing upon your reading and your own online experiences to date in support of the points that you make. The concept of digital ‘visitors’ and ‘residents’ is an extremely useful way of analysing peoples’ online activity, however, it would be most beneficial to think of it as a spectrum bookended by these two polarised terms and to investigate their motivation. Continue reading →

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