[ecrea] Book Announcement: Digital Skills, unlocking the information society

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Book Announcement: Digital Skills, unlocking the information society



Digital Skills, unlocking the information society

By Jan A.G.M. van Dijk and Alexander J.A.M. van Deursen



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 show what digital skills are, how they are distributed, 
how skill inequalities develop, and how these inequalities can be 
remedied by designers, educators, policymakers, and different types of 
Internet users.



Review

If you ever thought using the internet is straightforward, this book 
will change your mind. Its many complexities are laid out here- posing 
challenges to all of us as users, and to some of us as interface and 
content designers, educators, and policymakers. All these challenges 
must be met, the authors argue, if the internet is not to exacerbate the 
already problematic inequalities in our society.

- Sonia Livingstone, Department of Media and Communications, London 
School of Economics and Political Science, UK



Contents

1. Introduction

2. Defining Internet Skills

3. Impact: Why Digital Skills are the Key to the Information Society

4. Current Levels of Internet Skills

5. Solutions: Better Design

6. Solutions: Learning Digital Skills

7. Conclusions and Policy Perspectives



Available from Palgrave Macmillan:

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/digital-skills-jan-a-g-m-van-dijk/?K=9781137437020









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UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE

Department of Communication Science



+31(0)534891021 (-3299 secr.)

(A.J.A.M.vanDeursen /at/ utwente.nl)

http://www.alexandervandeursen.nl



Recent articles:

Internet Skills, Sources of Support, and Benefiting From Internet Use

Primary School Children’s Internet Skills

The Digital Divide Shifts to Differences in Usage





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