Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement

By David S. White, A. Cornu. First Monday, 2011

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This article proposes a continuum of ‘Visitors’ and ‘Residents’ as a replacement for Prensky’s muchdcriticised Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Challenging the basic premises upon which Prensky constructed his typology, Visitors and Residents fulfil a similar purpose in mapping individuals’ engagement with the Web. We argue that the metaphors of ‘place’ and ‘tool’ most appropriately represent the use of technology in contemporary society, especially given the advent of social media. The Visitors and Residents continuum accounts for people behaving in different ways when using technology, depending on their motivation and context, without categorising them according to age or background. A wider and more accurate representation of online behaviour is therefore established.

Subfields: Communication

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• Learning, Student Digital Capabilities and Academic Performance over the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021, background): “The digital “Visitors and Residents” (V&R) model [49] could further explain why students’ attitude towards digital learning seemed largely unaffected by the COVID-19 lockdown period.”