Negotiating Digital Citizenship

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This collection of essays offers an excellent representation of recent scholarship on digital citizenship. The contributions together challenge the reader to rethink the meaning of "digital citizenship", doing so through interrogations of online practices ranging from more conventional political activisms to cultural politics emerging from intimate communities of affinity. It has given me much pause for thought. -- Lincoln Dahlberg, Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, the University of Queensland This engaging and lively volume not only provides brilliant guidance on the maze of technologies that are controlling, contesting, and creating digital citizens but also contributes to a broader understanding of performative citizenship by illustrating the ways in which people are making themselves as political agents of a world that is at once digital (virtual) and analogue (actual). -- Engin Isin, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP) The authors in this volume offer thought-provoking notions of digital citizenship across cultures and diverse contexts, across an impressive range of topics. While digital citizenship can be defined as the ability to participate in society online, these contributions examine critically, in important ways, what constitutes participation, how that varies for different populations, and the costs as well as the benefits of belonging in the digital age. -- Karen Mossberger, Professor and Director, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, USA