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BOCIC, Paola Espina  y  GALASSI, Jorge Gibert. Informational capital as a condition of the digital inclusion: an exploratory analysis. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2017, vol.7, n.2, pp.25-44. ISSN 1688-7026.  https://doi.org/10.26864/pcs.v7.n2.3.

The paper explores the following hypothesis: the informational capital of “digital natives” is less than expected and in that sense their digital inclusion is weak. ICTs fulfill the function of social integration of New Millennium citizens who would be digitally included when their informational capital allows them to participate equally in the opportunities offered by this society to access these new technologies to improve their daily living conditions, and facilitate their tasks in the world of work. In our study we have focused on the exploration of the concept of informational capital from a quantitative operational perspective that discusses previous formulations and synthesizes recent findings. To do this, an online survey was applied to a sample of Chilean university students of bothsexes, between the 17 and 29 years of age, belonging to study programs in two universities under the assumption that by educational level and age they are typically digital citizens, i.e. digital natives “included” in the society of information and knowledge. The main conclusions point to the existence of digital skills that cross the students, as those called “protocol skills”, but at the same time, the lack of some basic technical skills for the world of work. Finally, it is noted that “Informational capital” could be further clarified in terms of the descriptive potential of the construct, updating digital skills and competences to better understand the meaning of being digitally alphabet today, which is a condition for an effective digital inclusion.

Palabras clave : Informational capital; Digital inclusion; Digital knowledge; Informational citizenship.

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