The youngest digital immigrant you know.
A digital immigrant is the counterpart to a digital native; it’s somebody who has had to learn about technology, rather than it coming naturally to them. The youngest digital immigrant I know is 23 years old. She has only just become used to technology, the internet, social networking and mobile phones despite the fact she has been living in a world with them nearly her whole life.
I think this is because her family are all quite similar, they never had a computer, the internet or digital television in their house until very recently. I would class this person as a digital immigrant because she is not as comfortable with technology as theorists of digital nativism suggest she should be for her age, but she learns and tries to adapt to our technologically saturated world and ‘immigrate’ into the digital culture.
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I think the key point here is when you mention that she learns and "tries to adapt", it shows a willingness to learn, which I think is what defines a digital immigrant. I can't remember which article it was that I looked at which created a third category; someone who wasn't very good with technology (like an immigrant), but also had no desire to learn, and infact looked down upon new technologies.
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