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Information Literacy of Elderly People: Bridging the Digital Gap

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Information Literacy in the Workplace (ECIL 2017)

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The aim of this paper is to present the methods and results of qualitative research focused on the use of the Internet by senior citizens in the Czech Republic. These results offer a unique insight into the situation which is terminologically described as a secondary digital divide. The purpose of the qualitative research was to recognize and describe what topics seniors are interested in, what their motivation to use the Internet is and how and why they search for information. The outcomes define the senior citizens’ fields of interest, information behaviour and the level of their searching skills. The research is part of a doctoral thesis oriented to elderly people, their information literacy skills and secondary digital gap.

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  1. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Iva Zadražilová

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  1. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. University of Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Zadražilová, I. (2018). Information Literacy of Elderly People: Bridging the Digital Gap. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy in the Workplace. ECIL 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 810. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_56

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