Digital Immigration is defined on Urbandictionary.com (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=digital+immigrant) as;
“Somebody who has popped up on an Internet site because of clicking on a link (sometimes accidentally). They don't have the slightest idea where they are at, but read the site information out of curiosity, and occasionally buy items if they are listed for sale.”
So from this it is apparent that Digital Immigration is simply those who are trying to use modern equipment and media, without having grown up with it. The term seems to be a fairy new one, but the concept of being unused to new things and growing up before the digital age is not. Digital Immigrants in today’s culture are deemed as being those who are fairly new to the internet.
In relation to who cares about it, my answer is everybody. Students like ourselves have been moulded to using new media and using computers, the internet etc, due to it being a huge cultural influence. Workplaces and businesses now train employees to use this new technology and teach them to speak this new “native language”. And many kids in today’s society are all computer literate, so parents have had to adapt to using computers and the internet.
Society’s attitude to this is we must all become computer literate, and if you are a so called Digital Immigrant, then the way that new media culture is developing means Digital Immigrants need to catch up and become familiar/interactive with the modern world.
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Do you think it's as simple as this though Matt? Is it all about prarents cathcing up? I've taught my sons many things about the digital domain, and in turn learnt things from my (yes you guessed) Dad. My (older) sister uses the net more than me (and no, she's not a lecturer!) and you can't get her off text/MSN/facebook for a f2f chat!! She has more of her own-design websites than you can shake a stick at, while her offspring just aren't that fussed. What's going on?? This seems to turn the parents having to adapt argument on its head.
ReplyDeleteI'm also hearing an echo from much earlier in the unit, when we were all asking "what's new about new media?"................
in my blog i suggest that there shouldn't be people that are defined as 'digital immigrants' and 'digital natives' as its now become outdated. give it a read. hopefully it mkes sense.
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