Chris Brown|Laura Czerniewicz
Debunking the ‘digital native’: beyond digital apartheid, towards digital democracy
University of Cape Town|University of Cape Town
abstract paper interrogates currently pervasive discourse net generation finding concept digital native especially problematic empirically conceptually draw research project south african higher education students access use information communication technologies icts show age determining factor students digital lives rather familiarity experience using icts relevant also demonstrate notion generation digital natives inaccurate attributes effectively digital elite instead new net generation growing replace older analogue generation deepening digital divide south africa characterized age access opportunity indeed digital apartheid alive well suggest possibility digital democracy exist form mobile society age specific ubiquitous finally propose redefining concepts digital net native generation favour reclaiming term digitizen