"digital immigrant" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is term used to describe someone who has had to learn about digital technology, as opposed to someone who grew up with the technology and is more fluent in it (known as a "digital native"). For example: "My grandmother is a digital immigrant; she wasn't exposed to computers until she was in her forties."
So Ms Baumholtz, by inclination an "analogue", became a "digital immigrant".
Someday America will have a justice who is, if not a digital native, at least a digital immigrant.
I thought about my life as a digital immigrant – I will never be from the place I inhabit, but my children are.
Even a self-declared "digital immigrant" such as Rupert Murdoch can see how that is changing people's relationship with their newspaper.
"I guess I'd be called the digital immigrant and my kids are the digital natives," said Ms. Hesse, who in addition to being a mother to three teenagers is an installation artist and the director of artistic services and programs for the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.
So I decided to test my digital immigrant biases — which tell me that no one can study effectively while watching, listening, surfing, messaging — against my professional experience, which tells me that medical students who don't study effectively can't learn the huge and complex body of material they have to master, and will therefore not pass their frequent tests.
Harris's topic is us – "digital immigrants".
Parents are digital immigrants, Dr. Christakis said; children are digital natives.
Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach," argues Marc Prensky in his book "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants", published in 2001.
This has created a growing sense of unease among both digital immigrants and natives that the end of "ownership" could eventually diminish the Web's value.
The Valley's denizens, despite their sloganeering about worldwide empowerment, secretly believe that tech creates a series of moats in which digital immigrants eventually drown.
