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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 ...
Look up netizen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term netizen is a portmanteau of the English words internet and citizen, [1] as in a "citizen of the net" or "net citizen". [2][3][4] It describes a person [5] actively involved in online communities or the Internet in general. [6][7] The term also commonly implies an interest and active ...
Digital civics refers to a range of ethical and responsible civic behaviours, citizenship, or democratic engagement in the digital realm. [1] The term itself is still establishing currency. [ 2 ]
Digital literacy. A teacher and his students in a computer lab. Digital literacy is an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and communicate information using typing or digital media platforms. It is a combination of both technical and cognitive abilities in using information and communication technologies to create, evaluate, and share ...
Citizen science (similar to community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, participatory monitoring, or volunteer monitoring) is research conducted with participation from the general public, or amateur /nonprofessional researchers or participants for science, social science and many other disciplines. [1][2] There are ...
Internet. Digital rights are those human rights and legal rights that allow individuals to access, use, create, and publish digital media or to access and use computers, other electronic devices, and telecommunications networks.
Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. [1][a] Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, [3][4][5] international law does not usually use the term citizenship to refer to nationality, [6][7] these two notions being conceptually different dimensions of collective membership.
A digital-activism campaign is "an organized public effort, making collective claims on a target authority, in which civic initiators or supporters use digital media." [3] Research has started to address specifically how activist/advocacy groups in the U.S. [4] and in Canada [5] use social media to achieve digital-activism objectives.