Digital Resilience: meanings, epistemologies and methodologies for life-long learning

Resilience describes the process of creating a positive development in lifelong learning, starting from normal conditions or by considering how to overcome adversities and stressful situations. During the last decades, this construct has been contextualized in different settings and disciplines and only lately, it has been introduced into the digital field. Research and theories on resilience nowadays are numerous and differ from each other according to the paradigm they are related to, to their assumptions, aims and methodological suggestions. This paper presents a review on digital resilience, using the Matrix method for collecting and analyzing data, in order to describe a clearer definition and application of Digital resilience. Results define digital resilience as a way of coping with the digital challenges (MOOCs, Open Access Publishing, risk), or resilience as the final aim of a project by implementing digital methods (digital storytelling, social networks etc.).