Being Digital 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. This new and updated edition includes a new preface and a new chapterexploring digital citizens of the future.

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Second Edition

1. Doing Things with Words and Saying Words with Things

2. Citizens and Cyberspace

3. Speech Acts and Digital Acts

4. Participating, Connecting, Sharing

5. Filtering, Tracking, Normalizing

6. Witnessing, Hacking, Commoning

7. Making Digital Rights Claims

8. Digital Citizens Yet to Come

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