Week 3 Reflection: Age & Digital Technology,Visitor or Resident, and Digital Natives
After viewing and reading this week’s material, I gained a lot of information. Information on how age can impact your understanding Digital Technology, the assumptions that revolve around the “Digital Natives,” and the idea of using the internet as a visitor or an resident.
In the video White describes two different internet users one being a visitor and the other being a resident. “A visitor uses a set of tools from a tool box for what they need, after they’re done they close the toolbox”(White, 2014, 3:30). The internet is the tool box that has its tools, after using the internet we close it when we’re done as a visitor. “A resident treats the web as a series of spaces or places, and when there offline a part of them is still there” (White, 2014, 4:30). Residents are more into social media networks, they create profile and interact with people on the web. When it comes to myself and the use of the online I am both a visitor and a resident. I do have profiles on social media networks such as Instagram and Twitter. I use these profiles everyday, but I also use the web as a visitor. When I want to know something I check google then close it after I find what I am looking for.
Another thing that I learned is how age my impact your Digital Technology use and knowledge. People who are born from 1985 and later are most likely to be resident users of the internet then someone who was born before 1985. These people are looked at as the “Digital Natives” to people who are older. I say this because these are the people who grew up in the peak of social networking. As we began to learn things in life, we also began to learn about social media as it was born as we learned. This is more of an influence on lives of the 1985 or after because social media is apart of our lives. For someone like my grandmother she didn’t grow up during a that time. She didn’t even have the internet. She lived without it, so it turns into more of the idea of a want then a need for her. On the other hand it's also like a need.
Overall the insight that I learned was very interesting. I learned new ideas and viewpoints of the web. It made me reflect on myself to understand who I am when it comes to the internet.
