Succinct Survey Measures of Web-Use Skills

By Eszter Hargittai, Yuli Patrick Hsieh. 2012

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Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Media Technology

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Fake images: The effects of source, intermediary, and digital media literacy on contextual assessment of image credibility online (2018, background): “Internet skills generally refer to users’ ability to use various online media effectively (Hargittai and Hsieh, 2012).”
Students’ Perceptions and Experiences of Social Media in Higher Education (2015, methodology): “We also referenced Hargittai and Hsieh (2012) to measure familiarity with social media tools.”
Development and validation of the Internet Skills Scale (ISS) (2016, background): “Several of the existing Internet skill measurements focus merely on the technicalities of Internet use such as being able to open a browser (e.g., Bunz, Curry, & Voon, 2007; Hargittai & Hsieh, 2012; Krueger, 2006; Potosky, 2007).”
Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter (2020, methodology): “In addition, SM Section 4 replicates the main analysis using a narrower, validated measure of digital literacy from Hargittai and Hsieh (2011).”
Explanations as Mechanisms for Supporting Algorithmic Transparency (2018, methodology): “The Internet Literacy control variable is based on the Web Use Skills survey reported in Hargittai and Hsieh [25].”
Is Bigger Always Better? Potential Biases of Big Data Derived from Social Network Sites (2015, methodology): “…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 Opinion research…”
In-class multitasking and academic performance (2012, methodology): “Internet skills were included because skills play an important role in how technologies are used and presumably, Internet skills may be related to frequency of Internet use as well as problematic Internet behaviors (Hargittai, 2010; Hargittai & Hsieh, 2012; Junco & Cotten, 2011).”
To search or to ask: the routing of information needs between traditional search engines and social networks (2014, methodology): “Participants were moderately skilled in their web use [13] (M = 3.”
No A 4 U: The relationship between multitasking and academic performance (2012, methodology): “…it is possible that Internet skills played a role in the relationship between multitasking and academic impairment in the Junco and Cotten (2011) and the Wood et al. (2012) studies; therefore, we will include an established measure of Internet skills as a control variable (Hargittai & Hsieh, 2012).”
From internet access to internet skills: digital inequality among older adults (2019, methodology): “We used an established survey measure of Internet skills [42, 74] to gauge user know-how, and expanded on this instrument to assess social media skills.”
Determinants of 21st-Century Skills and 21st-Century Digital Skills for Workers: A Systematic Literature Review (2020, methodology): “In the digital skills literature, a number of instruments have been used to measure digital skills (e.g., Hargittai & Hsieh, 2012; Spitzberg, 2006; Van Deursen et al., 2016).”
Student class standing, Facebook use, and academic performance (2015, methodology): “The original scale was created based on research that compared people's actual online abilities with their responses to survey questions about knowledge of Internet activities (Hargittai, 2005; Hargittai & Hsieh, 2012 ).”