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Prensky’s ‘Natives and Immigrants’ typology Prensky’s concept that was widely criticised for its generalisation of the population division based on the age gap and its education on technology. The net generation is the young, native population who have been immersed by the digital world from a young age, therefore ‘native speakers of the digital language’ (1). Continue reading →

Digital Visitors and Residents

Digital ‘visitors’ are known to use the web only when it is necessary and can help them in achieving certain goals. They like to do most of their thinking offline, so they are users, not members, of the Web and place little value in belonging online (White and Le Cornu, 2011). A common misconception is that the older generation are just visitors, but this is not completely true. Continue reading →

Intro Topic: Digital Visitors and Digital Residents

Digital visitors and Digital residents is a further development of Prenksy’s original theory of digital natives and digital immigrants. Prensky set to make a distinction between people who are completely at ease with technology and the digital world and those who actively work and know how to use the internet but will never be fully competent. This became an extremely influential theory, which until recently gained widespread acceptance. Continue reading →

Intro Topic: Digital Visitors and Digital Residents

Digital visitors and Digital residents is a further development of Prenksy’s original theory of digital natives and digital immigrants. Prensky set to make a distinction between people who are completely at ease with technology and the digital world and those who actively work and know how to use the internet but will never be fully competent. This became an extremely influential theory, which until recently gained widespread acceptance. Continue reading →

Intro Topic: Digital Visitors and Digital Residents

Digital visitors and Digital residents is a further development of Prenksy’s original theory of digital natives and digital immigrants. Prensky set to make a distinction between people who are completely at ease with technology and the digital world and those who actively work and know how to use the internet but will never be fully competent. This became an extremely influential theory, which until recently gained widespread acceptance. Continue reading →

Am I a digital visitor or a digital resident?

The terminology “digital native” and “digital immigrants” were creations of Prensky in 2001, who supposed that people born into the “digital era” would be digital natives, whilst those born after were immigrants who were likely to ‘manage to learn to exist but will never be fully competent'(Prensky 2001). Despite initial credence, Prensky’s theory came under strain from critics. Continue reading →

Introductory Topic

Digital natives are the generation of people born during or after the rise of digital technologies whilst digital immigrants are those born before the advent of digital technology (HuffPost, 2018). There are stark differences between digital visitors and residents. Visitors tend to only use platforms if they see it to be beneficial. Whilst remaining anonymous, they are unlikely to have any form of persistent profile online which shows who they are digitally. Continue reading →