Thursday, 19 March 2020
There is a belief that younger people are fully engaged in the digital world. But I am currently leading a project exploring people’s knowledge and use of online data, and the preliminary findings from our research have found that data literacy is not uniformly high among younger people, as is often assumed. Instead, some young people have very low levels of data literacy. We are concerned that widespread perceptions of “digital natives” lead people to believe that digital media use is constant across certain ages or generations and that all members of this generation have similar experiences of technology. This…
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