Digital skills of internet natives: Different forms of digital literacy in a random sample of northern Italian high school students

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 963-980

  Gui, Marco ^a   Argentin, Gianluca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

digital divide; digital literacy; digital media; digital skills; ICT; inequality; internet; new media; skills measurement; young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052305351     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810389751     Document Type: Article

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