INFORMATION LITERACY : INTERNET: ACCESS : INTERNET: DIGITAL DIVIDE : COMPUTER: EDUCATION : EDUCATION: TECHNOLOGY: SKILLS: Digital Divide and Social Media: Connectivity Doesn't End the Digital Divide, Skills Do
David P. Dillard
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Digital Divide and Social Media:
Connectivity Doesn't End the Digital Divide, Skills Do
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Digital Divide and Social Media:
Connectivity Doesn't End the Digital Divide, Skills Do
By Danica Radovanovic
December 14, 2011
Scientific American
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/12/14/
digital-divide-and-social-media-connectivity-
doesnt-end-the-digital-divide-skills-do/
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Whether we like it or not, we live in a very unequal and stratified world.
We live in societies in which inequality is ignored in education, science,
and in the social media. As Internet technologies are rapidly evolving and
new digital divides on the Internet emerge, we must move beyond, at some
point, a singular concern over Internet access and technological
infrastructure issues. We must tackle socio-cultural differences, we must
focus on Internet skills, literacies and social media usage.
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Social inequalities are of course a big issue in information society,
influencing media literacy, engagement in political, social, education
life, and using the web in participation and collaboration in an online
public sphere. They create marginalized groups who do not have access to
the Internet and therefore at some point will not be able to engage in
social, economic and political life.
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My preliminary results indicate that collaboration possibilities using the
Internet and social media services present one of the communication
practices for overcoming inequalities in e-skills, twentyfirst century
literacies and communication, and foster better collaboration and
participation.
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The notion of being social on the Web is constantly evolving since we are
connected not only via computers but also via mobile phones or handheld
devices. The web is getting more powerful and social: new messaging
services emerge each month; streamed media is becoming real even for the
non-technical consumer; Google reshapes its services like a child
rearranging building blocks; new ideas in federated rather than
centralized systems are being explored, and more. The frequent change in
layouts, privacy settings and interaction tools indicate that online
dynamics require new classes of knowledge and skills to adopt such major
changes on Facebook, Google, Twitter and other places in order to navigate
and socialize online.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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