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Digital Skills: Key to the Smart SocietyThis new book, written by Alexander van Deursen and Jan van Dijk, marks a step in a research line that they began more than two decades ago. At a time when digital inequality research still focused mainly on access to the internet, the authors helped shift attention to the skills people need to use digital technologies meaningfully. Their early framework distinguished between operational, formal, information and strategic internet skills: not only knowing how to operate technology, but also how to navigate digital environments, find and evaluate information, and use the internet to achieve personal, professional or societal goals. This framework was later expanded in response to the rise of Web 2.0, when the internet became more interactive, social and participatory. Communication skills and content creation skills were added to capture people’s ability to interact, share, collaborate and produce digital content (extensivelt discussed in their book: Digital skills, unlocking the information society). This new book (published by Palgrave Macmillan) extends this tradition once again. Today’s media landscape is no longer centred on a single computer or website, but consists of a complex mix of smartphones, apps, platforms, smart devices, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, social media, and traditional media. In this “smart society,” digital skills start even before use itself: people must first be able to choose which medium, platform or device is most appropriate for a particular goal. Strategic media choice skills therefore become a crucial starting point. From there, the book rethinks digital skills for a more complex mediated reality in which participation depends not only on access and basic use, but also on informed choices, critical judgement, creative production and strategic action across an increasingly interconnected digital environment.AIBoodigital skillsIoTkey to the smart societysmart societyRead more
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Digital Skills: Key to the Smart Society
SAVE the DATE: 12 July mini-symposium Science Communication
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