About Digital Literacy & Inclusion
Being able to deal with ICT has become a prerequisite for citizens to participate in today’s digital society. Governments, companies and employers increasingly expect citizens to communicate online, for example when requesting rent benefit, renewing their ID, or applying for unemployment benefits.
Theme coordinator is Annamária Neag.
While current interventions for promoting digital literacy often focus on elderly or low-literate adults, there are many other groups, such as young people or employees, that do not necessarily have the ability to critically, mindfully and actively deal with digital media. Yet, in-depth knowledge about how individuals develop digital literacy, what barriers prevent their participation in the digital society, and what conditions promote digital inclusion is still lacking.
Researchers at the UG from various disciplines are working to address this major societal issue, often in collaboration with societal partners such as schools, libraries, child care organizations and SMEs. The new Digital Inclusion working group of the Jantina Tammes School connects all of these parties. By bringing together knowledge from different fields, we can develop more informed strategies for supporting citizens’ digital literacy, in order to foster digital inclusion more systematically.
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Dr Annamária Neag is a socially engaged scholar, with extensive experience in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels across Europe and Asia. Her research is focusing on the intersection of media literacy education, (digital) civic participation and digital inclusion.
An advocate of participatory and creative research methods, Dr Neag believes in the importance of involving young people as active collaborators in the research process, ensuring that their voices and perspectives shape the understanding of issues related to the digital world and beyond.
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