Being Digital Citizens

Being Digital Citizens
Author: Engin Isin, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-04-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1783480572

Developing a critical perspective on the challenges and possibilities presented by cyberspace, this book explores where and how political subjects perform new rights and duties that govern themselves and others online.

The Networked Citizen

The Networked Citizen
Author: Giovanni Navarria
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2019-10-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811332932

This book investigates the changing meanings of power and politics in the Internet age and questions whether the political category of the citizen still has a meaningful role to play in the highly-mediated dynamics of an increasingly networked world. To answer such questions, the book analyses and compares the impact of the Internet on the relationship between state, citizens, and politics in three countries: the USA, Italy, and China. The book’s journey starts in the mid-90s and ends in 2016. It pays particular attention to Obama 2008 and Trump 2016 presidential campaigns, the ascendance to power in Italy of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, and to the enduring Chinese government’s struggle to control the Internet public opinion. The book challenges the traditional understanding of power through which the strong typically prevails over the weak. This leads to a clearer understanding of the wider role citizens can play (and must play) in a networked political sphere, while it also warns the reader on the many risks citizens face in a post-truth world. The book challenges the traditional understanding of power through which the strong typically prevails over the weak. This leads to a clearer understanding of the wider role citizens can play (and must play) in a networked political sphere.

Online Resources for Senior Citizens, 2d ed.

Online Resources for Senior Citizens, 2d ed.
Author: Charles C. Sharpe
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2003-02-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786428031

This book facilitates and expands Internet access and usage by seniors, assists them in finding the information they want and need, and contributes to their knowledge of the aging process and the challenges it presents by providing a list of online resources of particular interest to them.

Digital citizenship education handbook

Digital citizenship education handbook
Author: Janice Richardson
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2019-02-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9287189366

Being online, well-being online, and rights online: information, tools and good practice Digital citizenship competences define how we act and interact online. They comprise the values, attitudes, skills and knowledge and critical understanding necessary to responsibly navigate the constantly evolving digital world, and to shape technology to meet our own needs rather than to be shaped by it. The Digital citizenship education handbook offers information, tools and good practice to support the development of these competences in keeping with the Council of Europe’s vocation to empower and protect children, enabling them to live together as equals in today’s culturally diverse democratic societies, both on- and offline. The Digital citizenship education handbook is intended for teachers and parents, education decision makers and platform providers alike. It describes in depth the multiple dimensions that make up each of ten digital citizenship domains, and includes a fact sheet on each domain providing ideas, good practice and further references to support educators in building the competences that will stand children in good stead when they are confronted with the challenges of tomorrow’s digital world. The Digital citizenship education handbook is consistent with the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture and compatible for use with the Internet literacy handbook.

Being Digital Citizens

Being Digital Citizens
Author: Engin Isin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2020-05-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1786614499

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.

Signal

Signal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2004
Genre: Armed Forces
ISBN:

E-government 2.0

E-government 2.0
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2009
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Citizen Relationship Management

Citizen Relationship Management
Author: Alexander Schellong
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783631578445

This study explores Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in government. Based on an interdisciplinary literature review and multiple-case study design, a model of Citizen Relationship Management (CiRM) is developed and discussed. The case studies explore the perceptions of CRM/CiRM by administrators, elected officials and consultants as well as its implementation and impact on the municipal level and in a multijurisdictional environment in the United States. Although the explorative part of the study focuses broadly on a theoretical conceptualization of CiRM, the immediate empirical referent of research are the 311 initiatives in the City of Baltimore, the City of Chicago, the City of New York and Miami-Dade County. Thus, the results help administrators and researchers to convey the idea and challenges of 311 well. The study shows that CRM is to a certain extent only partly able to make novel contributions to currently active reform movements in government. In addition, the study's findings support the idea that CiRM provides the means to a different kind of public participation.

The Internet in Public Life

The Internet in Public Life
Author: Verna V. Gehring
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2004
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780742542341

The spread of new information and communications technologies during the past two decades has helped reshape associations, political communities, and global relations. The speed of technology-driven change has outpaced our understanding of its social and ethical effects.The Internet in Public Life raises critical questions about these effects.

Online Health and Safety

Online Health and Safety
Author: Bernadette H. Schell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2016-02-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

This book explores 10 unique facets of Internet health and safety, including physical safety, information security, and the responsible use of technology, offering takeaways from interviews with experts in the field and suggestions for proactively improving users' Internet safety. The Internet has become for many people—especially students and young adults—an essential and intrinsic part of their lives. It makes information available to be shared worldwide, at any time; enables learning about any topic; and allows for instantaneous communication. And it provides endless entertainment as well. But the benefits of online access are accompanied by serious potential risks. This book covers the key elements of Internet health and safety, including physical safety, information security, and the responsible use of technology. It begins with an introductory essay that gives readers the necessary conceptual framework, and then explains specific topics such as cyberbullying, file sharing, online predators, Internet fraud, and obscene and offensive content. The book also answers readers' questions in a "Q & A" section with a subject expert and includes a directory of resources that provides additional information and serves as a gateway to further study.