Abstract
The paper offers tools to study communicative activities provided by the Information Communication Technology (ICT) resources, particularly Internet and virtual environments (VE) through data analysis techniques.It is proposed that the research of communicative activities provided by ICT tools can be understood by the conceptual model of digital literacy which covers most of the cognitive skills users and scholars employ in digital environments. The conceptual digital literacy model of Eshet-Alkalai integrates photo-visual digital thinking skill, reproduction digital thinking skill, branching digital thinking skill, information digital thinking skill, socio-emotional digital thinking skill and real-time thinking skill. The model integrates the main cognitive and non-cognitive abilities to realize tasks in digital environments. It is suggested the adaptation of the conceptual digital literacy model of Eshet-Alkalai to develop methods to research communicative activities in ICT´s resources like e-mail, instant message, blogs, virtual communities participation, games, publishing and reading in Internet and virtual environments (VE).It is proposed that the research of communicative activities provided by ICT tools can be understood by the conceptual model of digital literacy. It makes possible survey measures of people´s online skills through methods of analysis and in determining qualitative research and quantitative research design. Keywords: Communication Research – Digital Communication Research - Digital Literacy – Method - Model of Digital Literacy – Internet and VR research
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