Difference between revisions of "Digital citizenship"
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*As Mossberger et al. (2008) defined it, digital citizenship "is the ability to participate in society online" (p.1). | *As Mossberger et al. (2008) defined it, digital citizenship "is the ability to participate in society online" (p.1). | ||
| − | **Digital citizens are defined as "those who use the Internet regularly and effectively" (p.1). | + | **Digital citizens are defined as '''"those who use the Internet regularly and effectively" (p.1).''' |
*Instead of viewing definitive category, DeLuca sees think it is more productive to view the concept on a spectrum. | *Instead of viewing definitive category, DeLuca sees think it is more productive to view the concept on a spectrum. | ||
| − | **Regular use, if more sporadic than daily use, can still potentially furnish individuals with skills and literacies to make them conversant digital citizens. | + | **Regular use, if more sporadic than daily use, '''can still potentially furnish individuals with skills and literacies to make them conversant digital citizens.''' |
*An individual's level of digital citizenship and digital civic engagement can vary by degree. | *An individual's level of digital citizenship and digital civic engagement can vary by degree. | ||
**On social media sites users might exhibit varying levels of engagement as citizens, posting and sharing content or commenting upon, re-sharing, and/or liking others' posted content at different rates as suits their investment in the social media space at any given time. | **On social media sites users might exhibit varying levels of engagement as citizens, posting and sharing content or commenting upon, re-sharing, and/or liking others' posted content at different rates as suits their investment in the social media space at any given time. | ||
Latest revision as of 09:26, 26 April 2016
- As Mossberger et al. (2008) defined it, digital citizenship "is the ability to participate in society online" (p.1).
- Digital citizens are defined as "those who use the Internet regularly and effectively" (p.1).
- Instead of viewing definitive category, DeLuca sees think it is more productive to view the concept on a spectrum.
- Regular use, if more sporadic than daily use, can still potentially furnish individuals with skills and literacies to make them conversant digital citizens.
- An individual's level of digital citizenship and digital civic engagement can vary by degree.
- On social media sites users might exhibit varying levels of engagement as citizens, posting and sharing content or commenting upon, re-sharing, and/or liking others' posted content at different rates as suits their investment in the social media space at any given time.
- The concept of digital citizenship create the possibility for wider understanding of what political civic engagement can be.
- Traditional notions of citizenship have focused on government-sponsored modes of civic engagement and interaction, the idea of the digital citizen—who participates in communities and conversations that matter to him/her—does have democratizing potential for what counts as civic and political engagement.
- Through Pinterest:
- Posters and commenters engage in debate
- users enacted their digital citizenship and undertook civic engagements to rhetorically negotiate their communal identity by setting parameters for the space that houses that community.
- Posters and commenters engage in debate
- Researchers and teachers in rhetoric, composition, and digital media studies can embrace these new forms of civic engagement and citizenship as an avenue for rhetorical action and discovery.
