Digital literacy
Alternative labels
Digital skills
Internet literacy
Digital learning
Report
A digital inclusion approach to device donation and reuse
This report highlights the demand for affordable digital devices across Australia, challenges and opportunities in the role device donation can play in addressing this demand, and potential policy levers.
Report
Uncovering the digital divide in the Western Parkland City
This report delivers findings from targeted research through a localised Australian Digital Inclusion Index (ADII) survey to measure digital inclusion across Western Parkland City and benchmark the digital divide between Western Parkland City and the rest of Greater Sydney.
Literature review
How does social media influence gender norms among adolescent boys? A review of evidence
This report and companion briefing note delves into the complex relationship between adolescent boys' social media use and its impact on gender norms. Anecdotal evidence implies clear links between social media use and a rise of discriminatory gender norms in adolescent boys, but the research to date suggests it is not a straightforward cause and...
Policy report
Overcoming digital threats to democracy
This report finds that there is increasing awareness of digital threats to democracy, and less complacency about online harms. There is also greater buy-in for deliberative democracy principles among both the general public and elected decision-makers.
Briefing paper
Digital media literacy as a precondition for engaged digital citizenship
This policy brief asserts that digital media literacy — the ability to critically, effectively and responsibly access, use, understand and engage with media of all kinds — is an essential part of civic engagement.