Digital literacy and poverty: investigating the digital experience of children living at pusat perumahan rakyat (PPR)

Mohamed, Shafizan and Wan Mohd Ghazali, Wan Norshira and Mohd Nasir, Nur Shakira (2023) Digital literacy and poverty: investigating the digital experience of children living at pusat perumahan rakyat (PPR). Journal of Media and Information Warfare, 16 (2). pp. 50-67. E-ISSN 2821-3394

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Abstract

The B40 indicates percentages of Malaysia’s lowest income population or the ‘Bottom 40%’. While the Malaysian government is doing its best to include the B40s in all its policies, one of the biggest challenges to this is to ensure that the B40s are abreast with the contemporary demands of digital technologies. More specifically, poverty often deprives children of having positive and productive digital media experiences and skills. These children usually lack access to digital media and are unable to grasp the potential that comes with digital technologies. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the children’s current level of digital literacy by studying a segment of the B40 group that is the children living at the Pusat Perumahan Rakyat (PPR). Using a survey on 308 children living at three PPRs around the Klang Valley area, this study applied the Digcomp framework for digital competency to measure the children’s digital competencies. The study found that the children have moderate informational and operational skills, safety and security skills, communicational skills, and digital participation. However, they lack in content creation and problem-solving skills. Therefore, the study proposes that there needs to be more coordinated effort among relevant and responsible authorities and institutions to push the digital literacy agenda so that it becomes equally, if not more important, than issues of digital access and ownership.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	B40, children, digcomp, digital literacy, Pusat Perumahan Rakyat (PPR).
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) > H10 Societies H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) > H61.8 Communication of information H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races > HT601 Classes T Technology > T Technology (General) > T10.5 Communication of technical information
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Communication
Depositing User:	Dr Shafizan Mohamed
Date Deposited:	16 Nov 2023 09:28
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2023 13:31
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/108167

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