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Measuring users’ internet skills: A review of past assessments and a look toward the future

Litt, Eden·2013·New Media & Society

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As the abilities to navigate and communicate using the internet increasingly play an important role in our social and professional lives, scholars must stay attuned to what such internet skills entail and how everyday users differ when it comes to such abilities. This article reviews the last decade of literature on measurements of everyday users’ basic internet skills, organizing how scholars have defined and measured the construct, and then systematically presenting what these past assessments tell us about internet skills and their relationship to other factors. Building on this foundation, the review concludes with a research agenda to advance this line of work, including a call for more valid and nuanced measures that capture the added layers of sophistication and sociability needed for today’s internet use.

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Metadata

Authors
Litt, E.
Venue
New Media & Society
Published
2013-05-24
Volume
15
Issue
4
Pages
612-630
ISSN
  • 1461-4448 (ISSN-L)
  • 1461-7315
OpenAlex
W2024938173
Cited by
263
References
7
FWCI
49.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)

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