News Media Framing and the Public Discourse of Digital Competences

In recent years, technological developments associated with a Fourth Industrial Revolution, often seen as disruptive, have accelerated initiatives aimed at training and assessing levels of digital proficiency in different fields of activity. The present study, with a quantitative and longitudinal nature, sought to analyse how the topic of digital competences was framed by the Portuguese press between 2007 and 2020. The results obtained show that digital competences are fundamentally framed under the educational, social and governmental perspectives, the media discourse being led by business representatives and members of national executives. Digital skills are framed by the media discourse as being globally positive and beneficial to society.