Digital world

The phrase digital world is most commonly used in when defining digital fluency, and digital literacy. The digital world is the availability and use of digital tools to communicate on the Internet, digital devices, smart devices and other technologies.
Academic usage.
Humanities and education discussions of the 'digital era' tend to create variations when categorizing and defining the mass of mediated technologies and human interactions that are suggested as part of the digital world. The phrase 'digital world' is used loosely as a mass noun with many possible meanings and variations.
History.
The phrase digital world was being used in electrical engineering studies before the creation of the World Wide Web. Originally it was used to describe the prevalence of digital electronic devices as opposed to analogue electronic devices. Articles relating to education in the digital world became more common in the 1990s.