Title:
Children's use of social media is creating a new type of digital native
Author:
Shahla Ghobadi
Published:
TechXplore, 3 March 2020
From the article:
The first generation of people who have grown up using social media such as Facebook and Instagram are entering the workforce. For as long as this breed of so-called "digital natives" has been alive, some academics have been arguing that using the internet from a young age would shape the way people learn, work and even think.
But it is still not clear how useful this kind of generational divide actually is, or how different these young people are to "digital immigrants" born in a pre-internet age. Some studies suggest what matters is not age but the level of experience and knowledge people have with a particular technology.
To read this article:
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-children-social-media-digital-native.html