Summary: This episode we talk with Eszter Hargittai [1], from the Communication Studies department at Northwestern University. Popular myth has it that the youth of today are calm, competent masters of the internet, but Hargittai’s research [2] points to significant gaps and inequalities in the level of internet skills possesed by so-called digital natives. What skills are lacking, why does this matter, and what should we do about it? Download Office Hours #12 [3] [1] http://www.eszter.com/ [2] http://www.eszter.com/research/ [3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH12_Hargittai.mp3
