digital natives
145451571
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1
Part one of this paper highlights how students today think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors, as a result of being surrounded by new technology. The author compares these "digital natives" with the older generation who are learning and adopting new technology naming them "digital immigrants"
Marc Prensky
145727934
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these days about the decline of education in the US we ignore the most fundamental of its causes. Our students have changed radically. Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. Today's students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big discontinuity has taken place. One might even call it a "singularity" an event which changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back. This so called "singularity" is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20 th century.
Marc Prensky
46710535
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
Renee John R Repique
115515632
How digital natives make their self disclosure decisions: a cross cultural comparison
Purpose Digital natives have become significant users of social network sites (SNSs) therefore, their disclosed personal information can be misused by SNS providers and/or other users. The purpose of this paper is to understand how digital natives make their self disclosure decisions on SNSs, as well as whether the concept of culture can still be relevant to digital natives. Design/methodology/approach The hypotheses were tested with survey data collected from the USA and China. Findings The results show that trust in SNSs and trust in SNS users are positively related to social rewards. Social rewards are positively related to intention to self disclose, while privacy risk is positively related to privacy concerns. Further, culture significantly moderates the relationship between trust and social rewards. Research limitations/implications The study clarifies the effects of different types of trust on privacy in the context of SNSs. Further, the study shows the effects of culture when digital natives make self disclosure decisions. Practical implications SNS providers also need to focus on different types of trust when operating in different cultural contexts. Further, SNS providers expanding their markets should emphasize social rewards to increase the likelihood of self disclosure. Originality/value The results show that while culture can still be helpful to explain digital natives' trust beliefs, digital natives have started to converge regarding their perceptions about privacy concerns and self disclosure.
Inf. Technol. People
Zilong Liu Xuequn Wang Jun Liu
117149093
Digital natives' coping with loneliness: Facebook or face to face?
Abstract This study compares online self disclosure through Facebook with offline self disclosure through face to face interactions to understand when and why digital natives may prefer to resolve perceived loneliness by turning to the Internet. Survey data from adolescents indicate that digital natives who employ passive coping favor self disclosure through Facebook, but natives who engage in active coping prefer face to face self disclosures. Both routes, through active and passive coping, appear to mediate the relationship between loneliness and online/offline self disclosures. Moreover, the relationship between loneliness and self disclosure exhibits gender differences. This study extends insights into digital natives, sheds light on self disclosures, and contributes to coping research.
Inf. Manag.
Elodie Gentina Rui Chen
174803638
The Impact of Digitalization on Literacy: Digital Immigrants vs. Digital Natives
Considering the speed at which new digital technologies are evolving, this paper aims to investigate the impact of digital transformation on multiple dimensions of literacy. An empirical research using antecedent factors of adoption is conducted to investigate the relationships between factors influencing digital immigrants' and digital natives' intentions to use digital technology. Using survey data on 177 digital immigrants and 183 digital natives, structural equation modelling (SEM) and a novel configurational thinking method fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) are applied. The results, while showing some similarities, reveal that digital immigrants and digital natives utilize digital technologies differently and their intentions to use are influenced by different factors. For instance, for digital natives, information literacy has no significant effect on intention to use, while this path is significant for digital immigrants. Moreover, fsQCA results, while supporting the SEM findings, show that there are multiple configurations of conditions leading to the outcome of interest intention to use digital technology.
ECIS
Shahrokh Nikou Malin Brannback Gunilla Widen
204812220
Digital natives vs digital immigrants
Purpose Generational membership is argued to have an impact on how social technologies are used for knowledge sharing and communication in organizational contexts. Previous research has especially underscored the difference between digital natives and digital immigrants in how they make sense of and interact with social technologies for work. The purpose of this paper is to provide a multidimensional perspective and to explore generational differences as well as other factors deriving from both work related and personal characteristics. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents a summary of the findings from interviews with 58 consultants from 17 managing consulting firms. Participants were selected based on their knowledge intensive roles and their willingness to share information about their knowledge practices. Findings Findings highlight the significance of the organizational rank, knowledge needs, individuals' enthusiasm for technology use and personality disposition in shaping workers' attitudes toward social technologies for knowledge practices. This work builds from a social construction of technology perspective to provide a comprehensive insight into the roles played by work and personality related factors beyond age and generational differences in the use of social technologies in and for work. Originality/value This research contributes to the discourse on generational differences and the use of social technologies. It puts this question into a broader context, and highlights other factors that shape this relationship.
J. Enterp. Inf. Manag.
Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi Ali Eshraghi
164954096
When digital natives enter the electorate: Political social media use among first time voters and its effects on campaign participation
ABSTRACT In this study, we explore the media exposure of digital native first time voters and test for its mobilizing potential for their campaign participation. We compare first time voters' and experienced voters' exposure to political information on social network sites, non social online media and offline media. Using a unique research design that involves a smartphone based diary study, we assess voters' (n 1108) media exposure every other day of the Danish parliamentary election campaign in 2015. We distinguish between different content types that first time voters receive on social media and test for variation in the mobilizing potential of these content types. Findings show that social media platforms play a superior role in the media diet of digital native voters and can foster campaign participation. First time voters are more exposed to direct communication from political actors than experienced voters while content from news media on social media plays an equal role in both groups' media diet. Results suggest that a digital media environment potentially socializes young voters into polarized information environments that nevertheless may increase their involvement in an upcoming election.
Journal of Information Technology Politics
Jakob Ohme
54812443
The rise and fall of the digital natives
Building on the earlier net generation and millennials concepts, Prensky popularised the notion of a generation of "digital native" students through his 2001 two part series "Digital natives, digital immigrants" Although his ideas about how students perceive and utilise technology resonated with many educators, they lacked supporting evidence. Subsequent investigations, which informed the so called "digital natives debate" produced largely contrary evidence and dissenting views. As dissemination and acceptance of this evidence grew, interest in the idea of students as digital natives should have waned. However, a detailed analysis of general and academic search data and of articles published in leading educational technology journals (between 1998 and 2017) suggests that this interest remains strong. Although references to digital natives and the related terms net generation and millennials in educational technology journals has declined somewhat (having peaked in 2011) public and general academic search interest in these terms and presumably the ideas that underpin them continues to grow. These trends are discussed from an historical perspective, considering how our acceptance (or rejection) of the digital natives concept has developed, and the potential past, present and future impact of this on technology adoption and implementation practices within our universities.
Terry S Judd
152015496
When digital natives instruct digital immigrants: active guidance of parental media use by children and conflict in the family
ABSTRACT Based on the premise that children are active agents who influence their parents' media use, this study investigated child parent digital media guidance. Children often introduce new media into the family and influence parents' media adoption and use. This study also investigated whether this child parent digital media guidance is associated with media conflicts in the family. A cross sectional survey was conducted among 187 parent child dyads in Flanders, Belgium. Paired samples t tests and multiple linear regression analyses were conducted. The results showed that both children and parents reported that children guide their parents how to use digital media, especially for newer media forms such as smartphones, tablets, and apps. Families where there was more child parent digital media guidance reported more conflicts about media. These relationships were comparable in the parent and child reports.
Sara Nelissen Jan Van den Bulck