The role of digital skills in promoting online privacy literacy of undergraduate students at Razi University

Document Type : Original Article

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1 PhD Student of Knowledge and Information Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 knowledge and information science, razi university.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

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Objective: purpose of this study is to investigate the role of digital skills in promoting online privacy literacy of undergraduate students at Razi University.
Methodology: The present research is applied and has been done by survey method. The statistical population of this study includes 7774 undergraduate students of Razi University in the academic year of 2019-2020. The sample size was 366 people using Morgan table and stratified random sampling method. A researcher-made questionnaire were used to collect research data
Findings: The level of online privacy literacy of undergraduate students is lower than the average. The level of digital skills of students is moderate. based on data analysis, digital skills with an impact factor of 0.49 on knowledge of the performance of online service providers, with an impact factor of 0.29 on knowledge of information protection laws, with an impact factor of 0.51 on knowledge of technical aspects of online privacy, with a coefficient The effect of 0.51 on technical skills and with an impact factor of 0.40 on social skills.
Conclusion: Due to the effectiveness of digital skills on increasing online privacy literacy training and necessary measures should be taken to improve students' digital skills.

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