Technology Initiatives: A Shared Leadership of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants: towards a Model of Digital fluency

Recently it has been suggested that “digital natives”, a generation of young people born into the digital age, are inherently technology-savvy. If this suggestion is correct, there could be profound implications for Information Systems research, which traditionally has conducted empirical research on “digital immigrants”. This paper looks at whether there are significant differences between dig...

Online Usability Testing with Different Generations: Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants in the online usability space

In this paper I will present a case study of eight generational web usability tests. The tests are focused around three web usability standards which are defined by leaders of the online usability world. The results are then compared to two different generations in regards to their experience with information and communication technology (ICT). The two generations are based on definitions outli...

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...

Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants: A Study of Information Technology and Information Systems (IT/IS) Usage between Students and Faculty of Nigerian Universities

Digital Natives’ and Immigrants’ Switching Behavior in Smart Home Environment – a Comparative Study

Lindström, Niklas Digital natives' and immigrants' switching behavior in smart home environment comparative study Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2016, 92 p. Information Systems, Master’s Thesis Supervisors: Tuunanen, Tuure & Salo, Markus This Master’s thesis examined the switching behavior of theoretical digital immigrants’ and theoretical digital natives’ in the context of switching from ...