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Digital citizen

Every year the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention hosts a summit to highlight its work to prevent cyberbullying, especially in schools and amongst students, in efforts to become responsible digital citizens.

The term digital citizen is used with different meanings. According to the definition provided by Karen Mossberger, one of the authors of Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation,[1] digital citizens are "those who use the internet regularly and effectively." In this sense, a digital citizen is a person using information technology (IT) in order to engage in society, politics, and government.

More recent elaborations of the concept define digital citizenship as the self-enactment of people’s role in society through the use of digital technologies, stressing the empowering and democratizing characteristics of the citizenship idea. These theories aim at taking into account the ever increasing datafication of contemporary societies (as can be symbolically linked to the Snowden leaks), which radically called into question the meaning of “being (digital) citizens in a datafied society”,[2] also referred to as the “algorithmic society”,[3] which is characterised by the increasing datafication of social life and the pervasive presence of surveillance practices – see surveillance and surveillance capitalism, the use of Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data.

Datafication presents crucial challenges for the very notion of citizenship, so that data collection can no longer be seen as an issue of privacy alone[2] so that:

We cannot simply assume that being a citizen online already means something (whether it is the ability to participate or the ability to stay safe) and then look for those whose conduct conforms to this meaning [4]

Instead, the idea of digital citizenship shall reflect the idea that we are no longer mere “users” of technologies since they shape our agency both as individuals and as citizens.

Digital citizenship is the responsible and respectful use of technology to engage online, find reliable sources, and protect and promote human rights.[1][2][3][4] It teaches skills to communicate, collaborate, and act positively on any online platform.[2][3] It also teaches empathy, privacy protection, and security measures to prevent data breaches and identity theft.

  1. ^ a b Mossberger, Karen (2008). Digital citizenship: the internet, society, and participation. Caroline J. Tolbert, Ramona S. McNeal. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-28028-0. OCLC 181030871.
  2. ^ a b c d Hintz, Arne (2019). Digital citizenship in a datafied society. Lina Dencik, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen. Cambridge, UK. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-5095-2716-8. OCLC 1028901550.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ a b c Balkin, Jack (2017-01-01). "The Three Laws of Robotics in the Age of Big Data". Faculty Scholarship Series.
  4. ^ a b Isin, Engin F. (2020). Being digital citizens. Evelyn Sharon Ruppert (2nd ed.). London, United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-78661-447-6. OCLC 1133661431.

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