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digital immigrant
[ dij-i-tl im-i-gruhnt ]
noun
- a person who has become familiar with computers, the internet, and other digital technology as a young adult or later in life. Compare digital native.
digital immigrant
noun
- informal.a person who has become used to using information technology as a young adult Compare digital native analogue
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of digital immigrant1
Example Sentences
Heck, you might not even be a digital immigrant.
If you鈥檙e a digital immigrant as I am, there鈥檚 something deeply satisfying about Michael S. Rosenwald鈥檚聽report in the Washington Post that 鈥渕illennials still strongly prefer print for pleasure and learning, a bias that surprises reading experts given the same group鈥檚 proclivity to consume most other content digitally.鈥
Another first-time participant in the NewFronts, whose presentation preceded BuzzFeed鈥檚, is a digital immigrant 鈥 i.e., a legacy-media company: The New York Times, which used its event to formally introduce its video offerings under the banner of Times Video, with the slogan 鈥淏eyond words.鈥
Those who don鈥檛 turn to the pros for help often seek succor from family and friends, a form of bonding between the Digital Native and Digital Immigrant generations built around questions such as, 鈥淲hy doesn鈥檛 my phone get e-mail anymore?鈥
If you take an fMRI of the brain of a digital native like today鈥檚 students and compare it to a similar scan of a digital immigrant, like many of their professors, you can see the difference.
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