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Digital ethnicity: discussion of a concept and implications for education

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/icst.trans.eeel.2011.e2,
        author={Nan B. Adams and Thomas A. DeVaney},
        title={Digital ethnicity: discussion of a concept and implications for education},
        journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Learning},
        volume={1},
        number={1},
        publisher={ICST},
        journal_a={EL},
        year={2011},
        month={9},
        keywords={computers and human behavior, educational computing, socio-cultural patterns},
        doi={10.4108/icst.trans.eeel.2011.e2}
    }
    
  • Nan B. Adams
    Thomas A. DeVaney
    Year: 2011
    Digital ethnicity: discussion of a concept and implications for education
    EL
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.trans.eeel.2011.e2
Nan B. Adams1,*, Thomas A. DeVaney1
  • 1: Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA 70204, USA
*Contact email: Nan.Adams@selu.edu

Abstract

Interaction with the rapidly expanding digital technologies for education, work, and play has drastically changed the processes and practices of world populations. As societies evolve in response to these new communication and calculation tools, the need arises to understand the sometimes unique but increasingly common change in cultures. The Digital Ethnicity Scale (DES), utilizing Longstreet’s (1978, Aspects of Ethnicity (New York: Teachers College Press) model of the Aspects of Ethnicity, was developed to describe the emergence of new cultural patterns of behavior that result from the influence of human interaction with digital communication technologies (Adams, DeVaney, and Longstreet (2010) Comput. Hum. Behav. 26(6): 1822–1830). Longstreet’s definition of ethnicity focuses on cultural development during the earliest stages of human development, prior to the onset of children’s abstract thinking. The ultimate goal for the development of the DES is to describe those aspects of digital ethnicity and collect these descriptions along with demographic data to achieve profiles of various digital ethnicities. A discussion of the guiding concept and overview of the development of the DES seeks to present a description of these digital ethnic profiles that may provide insight into the educational needs of rapidly changing societal groupings with hopes of providing guidance for educational practice.

Keywords
computers and human behavior, educational computing, socio-cultural patterns
Received
2011-01-06
Accepted
2011-01-12
Published
2011-09-27
Publisher
ICST
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.trans.eeel.2011.e2

Copyright © 2011 Adams and DeVaney, licensed to ICST. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/3.0/, which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.

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