Digital Literacy – 1
URL: http://rre.sagepub.com/content/34/1/179
Search terms: “digital literacy”
How found: Google Search, Wikipedia – link from Notes
Who wrote it: Mark Warschauer, Tina Matuchniak (New Technology and Digital Worlds: Analyzing Evidence of Equity in Access, Use, and Outcomes)
When written/published: Published March 2010
Type of Publication: Annual Review to provide “provides an annual overview and descriptive analysis of selected topics of relevant research literature through critical and synthesizing essays”. Title: Review of Research in Education, American Educational Research Association (Sage Publications)
Credibility: Maybe
- One of the authors, Mark Warschauer, is from the University of California, a well known university, and has over 14,000 citations from his various publications, with nearly 7,000 within the last five years (from Google Scholar).
- Verified academic email.
- Sage Publications appear to be a reputable and long established publishing house (since 1965), publishing more than 650 journals and 800 books.
- It is not a peer reviewed journal.
Digital Literacy – 2
URL: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/23/3/371.short
Search terms: “digital literacy”
How found: Google Scholar
Who wrote it: Eszter Hargittai (Survey Measures of Web-Oriented Digital Literacy)
When written/published: Published Fall 2005
Type of Publication: Journal Social Science Computer Review (Sage Publications), a peer-reviewed academic journal
Credibility: Yes, but …..
- Aurthor, Eszter Hargittai is a Professor at Northwestern University with a verified academic email.
- She has been cited more than 8,000 times and nearly 6,000 times since 2009.
- This article has been cited 196 times.
- However, the article was published nearly 10 years ago and maybe outdated as technology has changed rapidly in this time and new research may be more relevant to the current era.
Digital Literacy – 3
URL: http://llcp.nmit.ac.nz:2345/docview/1418211452?accountid=40261
Search terms: “digital literacy”
How found: Proquest through NMIT Library Database (peer-reviewed)
Who wrote it: Troy Hicks, Kristen Turner, Lisa Fink (No Longer a Luxury: Digital Literacy Can’t Wait)
When written/published: July 2013
Type of Publication: Scholarly Journal
Credibility: Yes
- All authors have written other articles which have been cited and are all associate professors at universities.
- Although this article has only been cited once, it is current (is the number of citations a good indication of the quality of the paper, especially if it has been published recently?)
- Published in a peer-reviewed journal
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