Gender, Digital Literacies, and Higher Education: Examinations of Equity

Author ORCID Identifier

Corrine Wickens:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9750-4250

Tracy Miller:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3222-5082

Publication Title

The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education

E-ISSN

44148

ISBN

9781119257639,9781119257585

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This chapter represents a concise synthesis of empirical and policy literature across multiple disciplines: sociology, digital literacy instruction, higher education, and information and communication technologies. In particular, it explores these differences of digital usage and efficacy within institutions of higher education by gender. Social structures and inequities permeate digital spaces, and people engage with and through these spaces in highly gendered, racialized, and classed ways. The chapter briefly explores assumptions around “digital natives, " as they (mis) inform digital technology applications and instruction in higher education. It discusses socialization and enactments of gender as they impact educational choices and credentialing within higher education. The chapter highlights how this socialization leads to significant differences in technological efficacy and usage by gender that challenge sweeping claims of increasing societal democratization.

First Page

53

Last Page

67

Publication Date

1-1-2020

DOI

10.1002/9781119257639.ch3

Keywords

Digital literacy, Digital technology applications, Gender differences, Gender socialization, Higher education, Social inequities

Department

Department of Curriculum and Instruction (CI)

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