Digital Skills

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Digital Skills

Key to the Smart Society

Society and culture: general Cultural studies Media studies Sociology Curriculum planning and development Educational strategies and policy Educational equipment and technology, computer-aided learning (CAL)

Authors: Alexander van Deursen, Jan van Dijk

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Collection: Digital Education and Learning

Language: English

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Published on: 11th August 2026

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9781349961627


Digital Landscape and Skills

The digital landscape has changed dramatically in recent years with the continued rise of social media, Artificial Intelligence, and Internet of Things applications, creating a complex ‘thick’ mediated reality spanning numerous online and offline platforms (e.g., TV, radio, newspapers, smartphones, smart devices, apps, websites, social media, and more).

These changes have transformed the digital skills required to participate in contemporary society. In this book, Alexander van Deursen and Jan van Dijk build on their earlier work on digital skills (published in their 2014 book Digital Skills: Unlocking the Information Society) to explore how technological developments reshape skill demands.

They systematically examine the skills needed today, assess how they are distributed across the population, and provide guidance on how policy can address gaps, offering a comprehensive framework for navigating digital inclusion in a rapidly evolving media environment.

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