Digital Citizenship

The different dimensions and challenges of citizenship in the digital era.

• Innovative and interdisciplinary handbook
• For use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms
• EU regulations and their implications for citizenship
• Relevant for policymakers

In the digital age, citizenship is increasingly detached from traditional boundaries and reshaped by digital transformation. New practices, relationships, and forms of participation raise conceptual, empirical, and normative questions about what it means to be a citizen today. This handbook maps the many dimensions of digital citizenship, highlighting the challenges and tensions that shape its development and asking how links between the digital realm and the public sphere create new forms of citizenship.

Digital Citizenship: Context, Concepts, and Controversies provides an interdisciplinary examination of the nature and stakes of digital citizenship. Its chapters address rights, responsibilities, governance, and identity, and analyze how state–citizen relations evolve under digital transformation. Claims are illustrated with examples and case studies in areas such as education, healthcare, labor, international mobility sustainability, and democratic engagement. Covering topics such as eHealth, learning analytics, civic education, misinformation, and the digital divide, the book foregrounds EU regulations and their implications for citizenship. It serves international readers and blends theory with practical tools and examples suitable for undergraduate and graduate teaching, while also being relevant for policymakers.

Peter van Baalen

Peter van Baalen is Full Professor of Information Management and Digital Organisation at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam.

Selin Gerlek

Selin Gerlek is Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology and Politics at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.

Jakko Kemper

Jakko Kemper is Assistant Professor in Digital Aesthetics and Platform Vernaculars at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Halil Can Kurban

H. Can Kurban is a postdoc researcher in digital citizenship at the European Studies Department.

Marina Tulin

Marina Tulin is Assistant Professor in Political Communication and Journalism at the Communication Science Department at the University of Amsterdam.

Guda Van Noort

Tamar de Waal

Tamar de Waal is Associate Professor in Legal Philosophy and Citizenship at the Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam.

Esther Weltevrede

Bidisha Chaudhuri

Paula Helm

Paula Helm is Professor of Empirical Ethics at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her work brings together anthropology, STS, and technology ethics.

Huub Dijstelbloem

Arad Ahi

Ans Kolk

Zahra Kashanizadeh

Henk Volberda

Marco L. Rapp

Myrto Pantazi

Joanna Strycharz

Hilde Voorveld

Mahsa Shabani

James Hazel

Lianne Hoek

Remmert Daas

Ot van Daalen

Elke H. Olthuis

Jaron Harambam

Isabel Benedict