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Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills." Digital literacy should be considered to be apart of the path to knowledge.

Reedy, K., & Parker, J. (2018). Digital Literacy Unpacked. Facet Publishing.

The participation gap is geared toward millennials. As of 2008, when this study was created they were the oldest generation to be born in the age of technology. As of 2008 more technology has been integrated into the classroom. The issue with digital literacy is that students having access to the internet at home that is equivalent to what they interact with in class. Some students only have access while at school and in a library. They aren't getting enough or the same quality of the digital experience. This creates the participation gap, along with an inability to understand digital literacy.

Dalton, R. (2017). The participation gap : Social status and political inequality (First ed.) [First edition.]. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. (2017). Retrieved April 18, 2020, from INSERT-MISSING-DATABASE-NAME


 * In an article by Jen Schradie called, The Great Class Wedge and the Internet’s Hidden Costs, she discusses how social class can affect digital literacy.  This creates a digital divide.

Schradie, J. (2019). The revolution that wasn't : how digital activism favors conservatives. Harvard University Press. INSERT-MISSING-URL.


 * Digital literacy should be considered to be apart of the path to knowledge.

Reedy, K., & Parker, J. (2018). Digital Literacy Unpacked. Facet Publishing.


 * The participation gap is geared toward millennials. As of 2008, when this study was created they were the oldest generation to be born in the age of technology. As of 2008 more technology has been integrated into the classroom. The issue with digital literacy is that students having access to the internet at home that is equivalent to what they interact with in class. Some students only have access while at school and in a library. They aren't getting enough or the same quality of the digital experience. This creates the participation gap, along with an inability to understand digital literacy.

Dalton, R. (2017). The participation gap : Social status and political inequality (First ed.) [First edition.]. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. (2017). Retrieved April 18, 2020, from INSERT-MISSING-DATABASE-NAME


 * Digital literacy is composed of different literacies, because of this face there is no need to search for similarities and differences.  Some of these literacies are media literacy and information literacy.

Koltay, T. (2011). The media and the literacies: media literacy, information literacy, digital literacy. Media, Culture & Society, 33(2), 211–221. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443710393382


 * The digital divide is also defined as a emphasizing the distinction between the “haves” and “have-nots,” and presented all data separately for rural, urban, and central-city categories.

Paul DiMaggio & Eszter Hargittai, 2001. "From the 'Digital Divide' to 'Digital Inequality': Studying Internet Use as Penetration Increases," Working Papers 47, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies..

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 * Digital natives brought upon the creation of ubiquitous information systems (UIS).  These systems include mobile phones, laptop computers and personal digital assistants.  They have also expanded to cars and buildings (smart cars and smart homes), creating a new unique technological experience.

Brown, L. (2015). Digital natives. Canadian Theatre Review, 164, 31–35. https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.164.005


 * These two groups of people have had different interactions with technology since birth, a generational gap.  This directly links to their individual unique relationship with digital literacy.

Eshraghi, A. (2019). Digital natives vs digital immigrants. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 32(6), 1051–1070. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEIM-04-2018-0071


 * In the modern world employees are expected to be digitally literate, having full digital competence.

Müller, M., & Varga, M. A. (2019). Digital Competences of Teachers and Associates at Higher Educational Institutionsin the Republic of Croatia. Informatologia, 52(1/2), 28–44. https://doi-org.libproxy.uncg.edu/10.32914/i.52.1-2.4