Digital literacy

Abstract

Social conditions and happenings made people learn continuously when they meet face-to-face. This learning process always changes because of technological devices and transforms into a multi-structure. Digital literacy appears as effective literacy during this process. Digitalization is originally based on digitizing, multimedia, interaction, and being everywhere. Developed digital technology and integration systems of the 1970s
started the formation of the digital world. Digital technology, voice, image, data or packaging, and storing of all kinds of messages with coding came with the development of computer technologies and communication devices. After the liberation of fixed control centers, the process of facts being transferred via the network has become liberal. In addition to this, digitalization prepared systems for globalization with their own universal language and communication system networks (Castells, 2008: 57).
Developments in satellite and televisions in the 90s made it necessary for societies to digitalize. This process also built their own social structures. Each fact no longer started to be defined with a digital term. Digital literacy is one of these formations. In this article author(s) emphasized on impact of digital literacy on people and the world around us