Digital Citizenship During a Global Pandemic: Moving Beyond Digital Literacy

Digital Citizenship: Parameters of the Digital Divide

As part of a National Science Foundation-funded study, we analyze data from a 2002 Midwest urban random sample survey (n = 167 adults) of differential access to and uses of computer technology. Factor analysis revealed three dimensions of attitudes toward technology (desire for computer skills, information power, computer use) and two factors regarding government role (digital government, compu...

Can we teach digital natives digital literacy?

In recent years, there has been much debate about the concept of digital natives, in particular the differences between the digital natives’ knowledge and adoption of digital technologies in informal versus formal educational contexts. This paper investigates the knowledge about educational technologies of a group of undergraduate students studying the course Introduction to eLearning at a univ...

Citizenship and Digital Media Management

This paper describes the Digital Media Management program (GMD, in Portuguese), offered by the City of Knowledge for staff working at public internet access points in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, since August 2002 (www.cidade.usp.br/gmd). The mission of the program is to network these professionals with the university’s knowledge production centers for the profit both of “digital inclusion ag...

Reflections on Digital Literacy

Parallel to the societal diffusion of digital technologies, the debate on their impacts and requirements has created terms like ICT literacy, digital literacy or digital competence. This paper intends to sketch some of the broader framing conditions for discussing the conceptualisation of digital literacy. It refers to selected implications and challenges when trying to document or even measure...

Measuring Collaborative Digital Literacy