Abstract
As shown in the EU Kids Online survey, more than one third of European children (36 percent of nine to 16 year olds) consider “very true” that they know more about the internet than their parents; 27 percent of the European parents have lower secondary education or less, 25 percent do not use the internet and 22 percent declare being not very or not at all confident internet users (cf. Livingstone et al. 2011a). In Portugal, these values are even more expressive. According to the same survey, two out of three children living in households with low socio-economic status (which represent 52 percent of the national sampling on children using the internet) identify themselves as the digital experts at home; 38 percent of the parents have lower secondary education or less, 40 percent do not use the internet and 28 percent declare being not very or not at all confident internet users (cf. Ponte et al. 2012).
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The Project Digital Inclusion and Participation (2009–2011), funded by FCT (National Science and Technology Foundation) was coordinated by Cristina Ponte (FCSH, UNL), José Azevedo (Oporto University) and Joseph Straubhaar (University of Texas at Austin). More information and outcomes at http://digital_inclusion.up.pt (English and Portuguese versions).
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Ponte, C. (2013). Media worlds and the generational order in socially disadvantaged families. In: Wijnen, C.W., Trültzsch, S., Ortner, C. (eds) Medienwelten im Wandel. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-19049-5_9
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