Digital natives and digital immigrants: Towards a model of digital fluency

ECIS 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wang, Qian ^a   Myers, Michael D ^a   Sundaram, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND BUSINESS SCHOOL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Digital fluency; Digital immigrants; Digital natives; ICT fluency; Net generation

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE;

DIGITAL FLUENCY; DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS; DIGITAL NATIVES; ICT FLUENCY; NET GENERATIONS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905739512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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