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Generations of Digital Divide and Their Meanings. By: Renee Jones. Digital Divide . Digital Literacy . Digital literacy is the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and create information using a range of digital technologies. .
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Generations of Digital Divide and Their Meanings By: Renee Jones
Digital Divide Digital Literacy Digital literacy is the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and create information using a range of digital technologies. • Digital divide is an economic inequality between groups, broadly construed, in terms of access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies
Interviewees. • Jeanette Austin- 74 • Simply disgusted with how the younger generation spends their time on social networks. • Nathan Lewandowsky- 28 • Feels that social networks create a lot of problems, he goes by “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words never will” • Jake Peterson – 20 • Being able to communicate with friends and family who are all over the world. • Tanner Gifford- 9 • . "We simply use the programs that have been made for us, and enter our text in the appropriate box on the screen“(Rushkoff pg.19)