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Being Digital Citizens (Hardcover, Second Edition)
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From the rise of cyberbullying and hactivism to the issues
surrounding digital privacy rights and freedom of speech, the
Internet is changing the ways in which we govern and are governed
as citizens. This book examines how citizens encounter and perform
new sorts of rights, duties, opportunities and challenges through
the Internet. By disrupting prevailing understandings of
citizenship and cyberspace, the authors highlight the dynamic
relationship between these two concepts. Rather than assuming that
these are static or established "facts" of politics and society,
the book shows how the challenges and opportunities presented by
the Internet inevitably impact upon the action and understanding of
political agency. In doing so, it investigates how we conduct
ourselves in cyberspace through digital acts. This book provides a
new theoretical understanding of what it means to be a citizen
today for students and scholars across the social sciences. This
new and updated edition includes two new chapters. A Preface
consists of reflections on developments in digital politics since
the book was published in 2015. It considers how recent major
political struggles over digital technologies and data can be
understood in relation to the conceptualization of digital citizens
that the book offers. While the Preface positions dominant
responses to these struggles such as government regulations as
'closings', a new final chapter, Digital citizens-yet-to-come
offers examples of 'openings' - digital acts such as new forms of
data activism that are less recognised but which point to the
emergence of paradoxical digital acts that are producing new
digital political subjectivities.
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