Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the “Net Generation”*

By Eszter Hargittai. 2010

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Subfields: Communication, Media Technology, Sociology and Political Science

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COVID-19 and digital inequalities: Reciprocal impacts and mitigation strategies (2020, neutral): “…inequalities exist alongside a multi-dimensional continuum, reflecting existing social inequalities in, for example, socio-economical status (Hargittai, 2010; Yates et al., 2015; Haight, Quan-Haase, & Corbett, 2014), age (Hall, Bernhardt, Dodd, & Vollrath, 2015; Yates et al., 2015), level…”
Succinct Survey Measures of Web-Use Skills (2012, background): “…of its uses including people’s abilities to use the medium effectively and efficiently, that is, their web-use skills (e.g., DiMaggio, Hargittai, Celeste, & Shafer, 2004; Gui & Argentin, 2011; Hargittai, 2002, 2008, 2010; Livingstone & Helsper, 2010; van Deursen & van Dijk, 2009; van Dijk, 2005).”
Predictors of eHealth Usage: Insights on The Digital Divide From the Health Information National Trends Survey 2012 (2014, background): “In comparison, older generations, labeled “digital immigrants,” have had to learn and acquire the necessary skills needed to navigate the Internet and are generally less comfortable using technology [48].”
eHealth Literacy and Web 2.0 Health Information Seeking Behaviors Among Baby Boomers and Older Adults (2015, neutral): “Greater access to the Internet has increased the availability of health information [3-5], yet many Internet users continue to face challenges accessing relevant and literacy-sensitive health and medical content that is of high quality [4,6-13].”
Digital Footprints: Opportunities and Challenges for Online Social Research (2014, background): “Even where technological access is available, the skills to make use of that access remains unevenly distributed (DiMaggio et al. 2001, Hargittai 2010, L. Robinson 2011), likely leading to biased levels of participation across kinds of online spaces.”
In-class multitasking and academic performance (2012, background): “(2012) and Junco and Cotten (2012) suggest, there may be something about the technologies themselves that leads to poorer outcomes—an issue worthy of exploration in future research.”
Determinants of 21st-Century Skills and 21st-Century Digital Skills for Workers: A Systematic Literature Review (2020, result): “This is in line with a previous systematic literature review which showed that digital skills studies are largely limited to demographic and socioeconomic determinants (Hargittai, 2010; Scheerder et al., 2017).”
Are digital natives a myth or reality? University students' use of digital technologies (2011, background): “In the US, Hargittai (2010) conducted a quantitative study of undergraduate students’ Internet use.”
Toward a conceptualization of the online shopping experience (2014, background): “So, instead of fitting the digital native stereotype (Prensky, 2001), the younger respondents showed reluctance and mistrust about online shopping: they do not seem to behave naïvely (Hargittai, 2010).”
The MOOC model for digital practice (2010, background): “…" Achieving a knowledgeable Internet citizenry is unlikely to be resolved through a solely technical approach that focuses only on infrastructure without any consideration of the social processes and institutions in which people's Internet uses are embedded " (Hargittai, 2010, Introduction).”
The myths of the digital native and the multitasker (2017, background): “She concludes in a blog post on Huffington Post (2014) which, in turn, is based on her earlier research (Hargittai & Hinnant, 2008; Hargittai, 2010) who states that: Intergenerational assumptions of relative know-how are incorrect as well.”
Mapping Digital Competence: Towards a Conceptual Understanding (2011, background): “Their skills are affected, for example, by socio-economic status (E. Hargittai, 2010) or by the location and social context of technology access (Brandtweiner, Donat, & Kerschbaum, 2010).”
A review of Internet use among older adults (2018, background): “Next, then, we turn to discussing differences in Internet skills among older adults, a variable that has been shown to matter when it comes to people’s online activities (Hargittai, 2010; Zillien and Hargittai, 2009).”
Swedish teenagers’ difficulties and abilities to determine digital news credibility (2019, background): “Today, researchers find a second-level digital divide where productive ways of using digital media seem to mirror levels of education and societal inequalities (Deursen & Dijk, 2014; Hargittai, 2001, 2010; Hatlevik & Christophersen, 2013; Hatlevik et al., 2015; Min, 2010).”
Trust Online: Young Adults' Evaluation of Web Content (2010, background): “Research on young Internet users has found that online abilities vary considerably even among highly wired populations (Hargittai, 2010: Hargittai & Hinnant, 2008; Livingston & Helsper, 2007) and concern, among other things, the understanding of how search engines work (Howard & Massanari, 2007).”