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I feel like "Digital Natives" is a term non-technical, business people (most in entry level positions) use to make themselves feel better about the fact that t
by vazamb 10y ago
I feel like "Digital Natives" is a term non-technical, business people (most in entry level positions) use to make themselves feel better about the fact that their jobs don't require any kind of special skill or knowledge.
- gaius 10y agoIts a term popularized by the BBC, they use "digital native" to mean people not old enough to remember a time before the web, and "digital immigrant" to mean anyone older. The fact that "digital immigrants" built all this stuff and "digital natives" are just users of it, is too subtle for their journos to grasp.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoThe term has invaded the education system over here in Northern Europe as well, mainly for use by politicians as justification for not putting together proper computer courses in schools: "they're all digital natives, they know how computers work", meaning they can work YouTube and Flappy Bird on a touchscreen.
- krolley 10y agoI assumed it was just a generational term like 'Generation X' or 'Millennial'.
- mcv 10y agoDigital is far older than the web. We had computers at home since as early as I can remember, but I distinctly remember in university when I first discovered a mysterious "xmosaic" in a menu on our system.