Web Survey Bibliography
This article presents a test of a recently developed method for studying people's digital literacy. Self-reported instruments pose a risk of misreporting by respondents. Participants in the study are presented with items that are used to construct a previously established digital literacy measure, interspersed with strategically developed bogus items, to test how the latter measure up against the former. The bogus terms score the least in comparison with other items suggesting that the majority of people do not make up their responses to these questions, thereby adding support to the utility of the formerly proposed instrument. Results also show a considerable discrepancy between familiarity of older Internet-related terms and newer web-based concepts offering a more nuanced instrument for studies of users' digital literacy.
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Web survey bibliography - Hargittai, E. (5)
- Succinct Survey Measures of Web-Use Skills; 2012; Hargittai, E., Hsieh, Y. P.
- An Update on Survey Measures of Web-Oriented Digital Literacy; 2009; Hargittai, E.
- Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites; 2008; Hargittai, E.
- Survey Measures of Web-Oriented Digital Literacy; 2005; Hargittai, E.
- Classifying and Coding Online Actions.; 2004; Hargittai, E.