Survey Measures of Web-Oriented Digital Literacy

By Eszter Hargittai. 2005

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Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations

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Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India (2020, methodology): “I measure digital literacy with eight (selfreported) ratings of degree of understanding of WhatsApp-related items, adapted for the Indian context from Hargittai (2005).”
Succinct Survey Measures of Web-Use Skills (2012, background): “In an earlier piece, Hargittai (2009) suggested the use of a list of items to measure people’s Internet skills based on the results and expansion of a study that compared people’s actual online abilities with their responses to survey questions about Internet know-how (Hargittai, 2005).”
No A 4 U: The relationship between multitasking and academic performance (2012, methodology): “Internet skills were measured using a 27-item scale developed by Hargittai (2005).”
Digital Literacy and Privacy Behavior Online (2013, background): “Two items measured online experiences in daily routines as they were related to differentiated uses of the Internet (Hargittai, 2004, 2005, 2007).”
In-class multitasking and academic performance (2012, methodology): “Furthermore, anywhere between 87% and 92% of undergraduates use Facebook and spend an average of over 1 h and 40 min on the site per day (Junco, 2012; Smith & Caruso, 2010). Cell phones are also very popular with college students. In the United States, a higher proportion of undergraduate college st”
Rethinking Internet skills: The contribution of gender, age, education, Internet experience, and hours online to medium- and content-related Internet skills (2011, background): “Observational studies in which actual performances are measured are more valid than using survey instruments (Hargittai, 2005; Merritt et al., 2005; Talja, 2005; Van Deursen and Van Dijk, 2010).”
Measuring user competence in using artificial intelligence: validity and reliability of artificial intelligence literacy scale (2022, methodology): “This technique has been employed frequently by many researchers (Hallaq 2016; Hargittai 2005) to ensure that they only consider those respondents who have paid close attention to the survey.”
Mapping Digital Competence: Towards a Conceptual Understanding (2011, background): “Furthermore, Hargittai (2005) and van Deursen (2010) have developed indicators that can be used for core skills that support computer, internet and digital media usage.”
Is Bigger Always Better? Potential Biases of Big Data Derived from Social Network Sites (2015, methodology): “…are likely to have diminishing returns. to measure Internet skills, the dataset includes a previously developed and validated instrument (Hargittai 2005, 2009; Hargittai and Hsieh 2012), similar to items included in the Internet Society Module of the general Social Survey 2000 (National…”
First Comes Love, Then Comes Google: An Investigation of Uncertainty Reduction Strategies and Self-Disclosure in Online Dating (2011, methodology): “To address critiques that have been leveled against simple Internet access measures (Hargittai, 2005; Jung, Qiu, & Kim, 2001), we created an index of Internet experience by aggregating the total number of online activities performed at least once a week.”
Student class standing, Facebook use, and academic performance (2015, methodology): “Internet skills were measured using a 27-item scale developed by Hargittai (2005).”
Determinants of 21st-Century Skills and 21st-Century Digital Skills for Workers: A Systematic Literature Review (2020, methodology): “Although self-report questionnaires have advantages such as the ability to present a large number of questions on a wide range of skills in a short period of time, the method has problems of validity (Hargittai, 2005).”
Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook (2019, background): “Building on existing work (16, 17), researchers should further develop competency-based measures of digital media literacy that encompass the kinds of skills needed to identify and avoid dubious content designed to maximize engagement.”
Internet skills and the digital divide (2011, methodology): “This method has significant validity problems (Hargittai, 2005; Merritt et al., 2005; Talja, 2005).”
PREDICTORS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DIFFERENTIATED PRACTICES ON SOCIAL NETWORK SITES (2010, methodology): “Also, following Hargittai ( 2005 , 2009 ), we constructed our Internet skill measure from 27 items asking about the respondents' level of understanding of Internet-related terms.”