About the Author
What is the Name of the Author
Jan van Dijk
Motivation and Attitude
What is the title of chapter 4?
Physical Access
What is the title of Chapter 5?
Digital and Twenty-First-Century Skills
What is the Title of Chapter 6
Usage Inequality
What is the author's current occupation?
Professor (University of Twente)
In chapter 3, Van Dijk states that "To be motivated to use digital media, people must first have the ____ to do so."
time
Does van Dijk consider the problem of physical access gone now that a large majority of the world has access to the internet?
No
Van Dijk states that digital skills require cognitive characteristics such as intelligence, knowledge, and _______. (page 68)
technical ability
Van Dijk states that ____ resources are needed to benefit from the incentives of the social context of the internet. (page 84)
Material
Jan van Dijk defines the "Digital Divide" as what?
A division between people who have access and use of digital media and those who do not.
As listed in table 3.2 (page 38), name the motive provided for the Cognitive need.
Learning
Of the barriers of physical access, Van Dijk lists which to be "by far the most important"? (page 49)
Material resources
Van Dijk accredits which author as "...using [internet] skills as the core theme in research..." (page 65)
Hargittai
In table 6.1 (page 81/82), what does Van Dijk state is the internet application of the "information" activity?
Encyclopaedias
In 2020, Jan van Dijk began writing a new, currently unfinished book titled what?
Power & Technology
On page 36, Van Dijk lists the top 7 reasons for non-computer usage in order of importance as deemed by a survey. What was the 4th reason in the list?
I have no computer or Internet connection
In relation to "rich people," what does Van Dijk say amplifies digital exclusion? (Page 50)
Social isolation
In the last 25 years, the most common terms designating the individual's ability to operate and use digital media were literacy, competence, ____, fluency, skill, and computer knowledge. (page 62)
Capability
In measuring digital media use, three indicators are mentioned as often used in research. Van Dijk defines the diversity of use (in relation to the internet) as what? (page 83)
the number of different activities for which the Internet, etc., is used
Van Dijk attended the University of Utrecht and titled his 1984 dissertation as what?
Western Marxism in Social Science
Van Dijk discusses the differing motivations and attitudes towards the internet based on their weekly usage time. If I were to use the internet for 3.5 hours per week, what kind of user would Van Dijk consider me to be?
Low User
According to a line graph provided by Van Dijk in Figure 4.1, how many internet users per 100 inhabitants in the developing world were internet users in 2004?
7
Van Dijk states that the most frequent research strategy to investigate digital literacy is to conduct a survey with printed or online questionnaires or with interviews. However, he states that this strategy is poor in ____.
Validity
What does Van Dijk state to be "the most important background factors for the frequency and variety of digital media use next to the positional categories of age and gender"?
Education and Employment