'Digital natives, digital immigrants, digital asylum-seekers: the clash of cultures', Sibiu, Romania
22 June 2010 - 22 June 2010
Romania
A conference entitled 'Digital natives, digital immigrants, digital asylum-seekers: the clash of cultures' will be held from 22 to 24 June 2010 in Sibiu, Romania.
Digital media and the internet have transformed the way young people learn, play, socialise, and even participate in civic life. Digital technologies also facilitate the creation of media environments and associated literacy practices that their older generations may find difficult to perceive or understand.
Such media environments and their respective specific literacy practices are fundamental for mapping a 'digital divide' operating along inter-generational lines. For some time, researchers has shown that 'ICT training' of (older) adults, has greater value when accompanied by an adequate cultural orientation to such new territories.
The event will bring together educators and researchers from all scientific areas that describe, document, and analyse various forms of generational engagement with digital/online environments and how they relate to various forms of social and cultural capital. It will look to discuss and detail challenges and obstacles which encourage or inhibit engagement, as well as successful strategies and teaching processes.
The conference is sponsored by the DIGITAS ('Digital asylum-seekers - media education crash course for parents and grandparents') project.For further information, please click:
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Digital media and the internet have transformed the way young people learn, play, socialise, and even participate in civic life. Digital technologies also facilitate the creation of media environments and associated literacy practices that their older generations may find difficult to perceive or understand.
Such media environments and their respective specific literacy practices are fundamental for mapping a 'digital divide' operating along inter-generational lines. For some time, researchers has shown that 'ICT training' of (older) adults, has greater value when accompanied by an adequate cultural orientation to such new territories.
The event will bring together educators and researchers from all scientific areas that describe, document, and analyse various forms of generational engagement with digital/online environments and how they relate to various forms of social and cultural capital. It will look to discuss and detail challenges and obstacles which encourage or inhibit engagement, as well as successful strategies and teaching processes.
The conference is sponsored by the DIGITAS ('Digital asylum-seekers - media education crash course for parents and grandparents') project.For further information, please click:
here(opens in new window)