Thursday, November 13, 2014

Large digital divide between skilled and unskilled – Tech News

This creates a large gap between Internet users, where the higher educated themselves better lye trained users the Internet mainly for games and entertainment use. That has been proven in a study by the University of Twente. Is the internet behavior of Dutch During the study examined.

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The investigation has shown that social inequality is increasing on the Internet. Higher education use the Internet more for attending courses and looking up information, while the less educated use the internet mainly for multimedia and entertainment. The trend, according to researchers since 2010 noticeable.

“Both high- and low-skilled watch videos on YouTube,” according to Van Dijk. “But low-skilled look especially funny videos, while highly educated mainly watch movies which have a subject. Van Dijk thinks there may be some made to social inequality on the internet by offering them to the school or by embedding Internet applications

such as online education.

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