Born into the Digital Age in the south of Africa: the reconfiguration of the “digital citizen”
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2012
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In the South African context, being a “digital native” is not about age but about experience, and does not apply to a generation but to an elite. At the centre of the digital divide is the issue of access to technology. Notions of the digital native, in terms of participating in higher education, connote computer access quite specifically. While the group of “digital strangers” in the research were indeed strangers to computer-based technology, they all had access to cell phones. Thus, the cell phone could enable digital democracy in a country where both social and digital exclusion are central concerns.
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HABITUS, GROWING UP DIGITAL, SOUTH AFRICA, OBJECTIFIED CAPITAL, EMBODIED CAPITAL, CULTURAL CAPITAL, CELLULAR PHONES, DIGITAL STRANGER, DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP, DIGITAL NATIVE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION SOCIETY, DIGITAL INCLUSION
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Czerniewicz, L., & Brown, C. (2012). Born into the Digital Age in the south of Africa: the reconfiguration of the “digital citizen”. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Networked Learning 2010. (p.859-865).