Development and validation of the Internet Skills Scale (ISS)

By A. V. van Deursen, Ellen J. Helsper, Rebecca Eynon. 2016

420 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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In Communication

1. A. V. van Deursen
2. J. V. van Dijk
3. Ruth Festl
4. Ellen J. Helsper
5. Kjartan Ólafsson
6. E. van Laar
7. Jos de Haan
8. Hasnan Baber

In Gender Studies

1. Ruth Festl
2. J. V. van Dijk
3. A. V. van Deursen
4. Kjartan Ólafsson
5. Ellen J. Helsper
6. Hasnan Baber
7. E. van Laar
8. Jos de Haan

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Ruth Festl
2. J. V. van Dijk
3. A. V. van Deursen
4. Kjartan Ólafsson
5. Ellen J. Helsper
6. Hasnan Baber
7. E. van Laar
8. Jos de Haan

Citations in the corpus

• A systematic review on digital literacy (2022, background): “Similarly, Helsper and Eynon (2013) It is worth mentioning that the various methodologies used to classify digital literacy are overlapping or non-exhaustive, which confirms the conceptual ambiguity mentioned by van Deursen et al. (2015).”
• The first-level digital divide shifts from inequalities in physical access to inequalities in material access (2018, methodology): “Internet skills were measured using the Internet Skills Scale (Van Deursen et al., 2016).”
• Social media literacy & adolescent social online behavior in Germany (2020, methodology): “(van Deursen et al., 2016, p. 6–7) This definition of social skills is focused on the acting person and the underlying technological demands of the Internet, while ignoring the surrounding social context and developmental challenges young users are confronted with.”
• Determinants of 21st-Century Skills and 21st-Century Digital Skills for Workers: A Systematic Literature Review (2020, methodology): “…necessary to use the internet and skills required to comprehend and use online content should be accounted for (Bawden, 2008; Brandtweiner et al., 2010; Eshet-Alkalai & Amichai-Hamburger, 2004; Ferrari, 2012; Gui & Argentin, 2011; Mossberger et al., 2003; Spitzberg, 2006; Van Deursen et al., 2016).”
• Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing Risks for Children Online: The Role of Digital Skills in Emerging Strategies of Parental Mediation (2017, methodology): “…on an agreement scale (5 = very true of my child to 1 = not at all true of my child ) for operational skills (five items), information/browsing skills (five items), social skills (five items), creative skills (five items), and mobile skills (four items) (adapted from van Deursen et al., 2015).”