Comparing The Psychological Aspects Of Digital Natives With Digital Immigrants in The Digital Culture Era

Abstract

This study aims to provide a description of the cognitive, affective, and behavioral aspects of the digital native and digital immigrant generations in the digital culture era. Fundamentally, the existence of digital technology provides dynamics in people's way of life, which can also be called digital era culture. Furthermore, digital era culture has a psychological impact on the cohorts living in it, namely digital natives and digital immigrants. This research is a non-empirical study conducted with a literature review. The results of the literature review show that digital natives and digital immigrants have specific characteristics related to cognitive, affective, and behavioral aspects in each generation in the digital era culture. There is a reciprocal relationship between technology and humans that is also related to the era and cohort. Cohort provides an explanation regarding the interaction and familiarity of individuals with technology in the digital culture era.