Are You a Digital Collaborator?
The latest PewResearch Center Publication is all about Internet Typology.
It concludes that 39% of the adult population are motivated by mobility: their reliance on mobile devices is increasing.
The remaining 61% of the adult population is pretty turned off. They show low levels of use of mobile applications and decidedly tepid attitudes about ICTs.
The research has categorised adults into 10 groups
Digital Collaborators: 8% of adults use information gadgets to collaborate with others and share their creativity with the world.
Ambivalent Networkers: 7% of adults heavily use mobile devices to connect with others and entertain themselves, but they don’t always like it when the cell phone rings.
Media Movers: 7% of adults use online access to seek out information nuggets, and these nuggets make their way through these users’ social networks via desktop and mobile access.
Roving Nodes: 9% of adults use their mobile devices to connect with others and share information with them.
Mobile Newbies: 8% of adults lack robust access to the internet, but they like their cell phones.
Desktop Veterans: 13% of adults are dedicated to wireline access to digital information, and like how it opens up the pipeline to information for them.
Drifting Surfers: 14% of adults are light users — despite having a lot of ICTs — and say they could do without modern gadgets and services.
Information Encumbered: 10% of adults feel overwhelmed by information and inadequate to troubleshoot modern ICTs.
The Tech Indifferent: 10% of adults are unenthusiastic about the internet and cell phone.
Off the Network: 14% of adults are neither cell phone users nor internet users.
There’s a quiz you can take to find out where you fit in the mobile technology typology.
Predictably I came out as a Digital Collaborator.
If you are a Digital Collaborator, you use information technology to work with and share your creations with others. You are enthusiastic about how ICTs help you connect with others and confident in how to manage digital devices and information. For you, the digital commons can be a camp, a lab, or a theater group – places to gather with others to develop something new.
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