TY - JOUR
T1 - In their own words : 41 stories of young people's digital citizenship
AU - Black, Rosalyn
AU - Walsh, Lucas
AU - Waite, Catherine
AU - Collin, Philippa
AU - Third, Amanda
AU - Idriss, Sherene
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Digital citizenship and cyber safety are often used interchangeably in the context of young people’s internet use, depicting the young person as passive, vulnerable and in need of adult intervention to navigate an unsafe online environment and perpetuating reductive and deterministic initiatives that rarely respond to young people’s own online perspectives and experiences. This discussion maps recent definitions and debates about digital citizenship and cyber safety. It draws from 41 stories of young Australians aged 12–18 to think about young people’s digital citizenship within the wider context of their lived citizenship. Reflecting the deeply relational nature of young people’s experiences as digital actors and how they creatively perform their citizenship online, it suggests that young people’s accounts provide an opportunity to consider how citizenship is understood through digital lives and to direct educational responses that encompass emergent civic cultures emerging from young people’s performance as digital citizens.
AB - Digital citizenship and cyber safety are often used interchangeably in the context of young people’s internet use, depicting the young person as passive, vulnerable and in need of adult intervention to navigate an unsafe online environment and perpetuating reductive and deterministic initiatives that rarely respond to young people’s own online perspectives and experiences. This discussion maps recent definitions and debates about digital citizenship and cyber safety. It draws from 41 stories of young Australians aged 12–18 to think about young people’s digital citizenship within the wider context of their lived citizenship. Reflecting the deeply relational nature of young people’s experiences as digital actors and how they creatively perform their citizenship online, it suggests that young people’s accounts provide an opportunity to consider how citizenship is understood through digital lives and to direct educational responses that encompass emergent civic cultures emerging from young people’s performance as digital citizens.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:65378
U2 - 10.1080/17439884.2022.2044848
DO - 10.1080/17439884.2022.2044848
M3 - Article
SN - 1743-9884
VL - 47
SP - 524
EP - 536
JO - Learning, Media and Technology
JF - Learning, Media and Technology
IS - 4
ER -