This webpage has a very short article on it regarding digital immigration. I found it interesting and decided to use it because it is critical of the term digital immigration! The author explains how there is the people who created internet in the first place etc, and how it’s impossible to call them a digital immigrant in comparison to someone who is younger just because they use Facebook and the like!
I thought this website was good because it summarized a counter argument in a paragraph or two, and was really easy to read, anyone could understand it! I thought it was also good because it had a picture of the author, whom is not a ‘teenager’ or young, so therefore probably classed as a digital immigrant, and she is online making a webpage etc – clearly going against the digital immigrant age range, actually the majority of the websites I have looked at are all by people of older age who would be classed as a digital immigrant by X.
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Yes, this is somewhat why I ask people to criticise sites on the terms of 'DI'.
Don't old fogeys like me (and prof Winston) have a vested interested in claiming that we're not 'left behind', merely more clear-sighted than younger people (but then again, MP is about the same age as me?)
I'm more convinced by people talking about the patchyness of digital nativeness. About the 'false expectatons' and swiftness of change in digerati fashion (with gadgets being incompatible). You guys seem unconvinced that it is the way to go?
My feeling is that we all inhabit different parallel worlds. Just because I like Jazz, doesn't mean I want it piped into my office, or introducing each lecture. I enjoy strong Rum, but I don't want to drink it at work! Similarly, just because I have a lot of downloaded sounds on my portable music player, doesn't mean I want to get my news podcast -or my fiction. I have loads of articles on my laptop. It's only cost and bulk that makes me read off the screen. So I guess everyone is a bit like me. We have no problem with different attitudes to different areas of our life, and no problem with different relations to CMC technology in these. Indeed, we like it like that. However, the balance of CMC tech in any area might be experimented with?
Hi Megan! On a personal level I don’t think the classifications of digital natives and immigrants are infallible.
Just because we are supposedly the digital generation, it doesn’t necessarily mean we are good with technology or that we like it.
It has been suggested that there is a ‘digital native divide’ and that not everyone in the ‘digital generation’ can gain access. What do you think to this?
Certainly I think the assumption that all ‘oldies’ as you put it Dave are digital immigrants is rubbish. Perhaps there ought to be a distinction between digital immigrants (like Dave) who are familiar and competent with using new media technologies, and immigrants who are unwilling to embrace these technologies (eg. Brian Winston – his words ‘Im not crap, Windows is crap!).
Perhaps it should be natives, immigrants and ‘digital ignorants’? What do other people think to this idea? xx
haha I really liked Amie's thoughts on this.
I think that there are definately more then two groups of people. Who belongs where is not always 100% clear but then again what is?
Many people in our age did not have the same opportinities to get in constant contact to the cyber and tech world like we did but that does not make them immigrants does it? And then there are peole who just refuse to understand it all and keep as little contact to it as possible. Ignorants like Amie said?
Maybe we could all make our categories of people we know and then decided on different (more specific names) then the ones from Prensky?
I agree that their should be more categories!
We could all call ourselves digital natives, but that wouldnt mean we where all on the same level and had all had the same opinions when it came to technology, so surely within each category theyre should be different levels?
I think its silly to categorize all older people as digital immigrants, as I'm sure there is many people who work on computers who are much older than ourselves!
My dad builds the things and is absolutely computer mad! How can I be more 'technology' aware than him? I cant be! He has years of knowledge on the things above me, and I'll probably never catch up with his knowledge on the stuff...
You cant label people digital immigrants/ natives by their age. I know people who are our age that cant really use computers aswell.
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