Using the internet: skill related problems in users’ online behavior Export

@article{citeulike:5031948, abstract = {This study extends the conventional and superficial notion of measuring digital skills by proposing definitions for operational, formal, information and strategic skills. The main purpose was to identify individual skill related problems that users experience when navigating the Internet. In particular, lower levels of education and aging seem to contribute to the amount of experienced operational and formal skill related problems. With respect to information skills, higher levels of education seem to perform best. Age did not seem to contribute to information skill related problems. Results did reveal that age had a negative effect on selecting irrelevant search results. Individual strategic Internet skill related problems occurred often, with the exception of subjects with higher levels of education. Younger subjects experienced far less operational and formal skill related problems, but there was no difference regarding information and strategic skill related problems.}, author = {van Deursen, Alexander J. and van Dijk, Jan A.}, citeulike-article-id = {5031948}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2009.06.005}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0953543809000551}, doi = {10.1016/j.intcom.2009.06.005}, issn = {09535438}, journal = {Interacting with Computers}, keywords = {information\_behavior, internet, users}, month = {June}, posted-at = {2009-07-01 12:07:47}, priority = {2}, title = {Using the internet: skill related problems in users' online behavior}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2009.06.005}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5031948 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5031948 N2 - This study extends the conventional and superficial notion of measuring digital skills by proposing definitions for operational, formal, information and strategic skills. The main purpose was to identify individual skill related problems that users experience when navigating the Internet. In particular, lower levels of education and aging seem to contribute to the amount of experienced operational and formal skill related problems. With respect to information skills, higher levels of education seem to perform best. Age did not seem to contribute to information skill related problems. Results did reveal that age had a negative effect on selecting irrelevant search results. Individual strategic Internet skill related problems occurred often, with the exception of subjects with higher levels of education. Younger subjects experienced far less operational and formal skill related problems, but there was no difference regarding information and strategic skill related problems. JF - Interacting with Computers SN - 09535438 TI - Using the internet: skill related problems in users’ online behavior KW - information_behavior KW - internet KW - users AU - van Deursen, Alexander AU - van Dijk, Jan PY - 2009/06/30/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2009.06.005 ER -