Segnalo due inchieste sulluso di Internet in Italia http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2010/07/29/quasi-24-milioni-gli-italiani-su-... Saluti mb ----- Original Message ----- From: J.C. DE MARTIN To: nexa@server-nexa.polito.it Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 5:36 PM Subject: [nexa] NY Times: "So-Called 'Digital Natives' Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows" July 29, 2010 So-Called 'Digital Natives' Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows By SARAH PEREZ of ReadWriteWeb "In Google we trust." That may very well be the motto of today's young online users, a demographic group often dubbed the "digital natives" due their apparent tech-savvy. Having been born into a world where personal computers were not a revolution, but merely existed alongside air conditioning, microwaves and other appliances, there has been (a perhaps misguided) perception that the young are more digitally in-tune with the ways of the Web than others. That may not be true, as it turns out. A new study coming out of Northwestern University, discovered that college students have a decided lack of Web savvy, especially when it comes to search engines and the ability to determine the credibility of search results. Apparently, the students favor search engine rankings above all other factors. The only thing that matters is that something is the top search result, not that it's legit. [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/07/29/29readwriteweb-so-ca... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa@server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa