Handbook on Digital Citizenship

Digital citizenship is a crucial concept for understanding our existence in, and engagement with, increasingly digitized and datafied societies. Featuring contributions from authors around the globe, this timely Handbook unpacks the multiple dimensions, agendas and implications of the digital citizenship debate.Contributors provide expert and in-depth guidance on the key elements of contemporary and future digital life. Tackling major themes such as digital culture, digital literacy, the digital state and the platform economy, they examine the global landscape across a range of disciplines. Covering both the opportunities and challenges of these developments, they consider the empowering dimension of digital participation and engagement as well as the growing constraints of digital profiling and control. Connecting established perspectives on digital citizenship with emerging debates on automation, algorithmic decision making and artificial intelligence, they investigate both current characteristics and future trajectories of digital citizenship. Ultimately, chapters explore what digital citizenship means and where its challenges lie, and they firmly situate digital citizenship as a key concept for our increasingly digitised and datafied world.This Handbook is an essential resource for students of political science, sociology, policy studies, cultural studies and media and communication studies. It is also invaluable for policymakers interested in contemporary debates and policy needs in digital citizenship.