Digital skills : unlocking the information society /

Digital Skills systematically discusses the skills or literacies needed in the use of digital media, primarily computers and the Internet. Following the work of van Dijk's, The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society, it uses conceptual analysis and empirical observations to sho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dijk, Jan van, 1952-
Other Authors: Deursen, Alexander van
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Palgrave Macmillan's digital education and learning series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Defining internet skills
  • Impact: why digital skills are the key to the information society
  • Current levels of internet skills
  • Solutions: better design
  • Solutions: learning digital skills
  • Conclusions and policy perspectives.