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.

"Digital Citizenship" was written by Guda Van Noort, Tamar de Waal, Esther Weltevrede, Bidisha Chaudhuri, Paula Helm, 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 and Isabel Benedict.

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

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

"Digital Citizenship" was edited by Peter van Baalen, Selin Gerlek, Jakko Kemper, Halil Can Kurban and Marina Tulin.

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

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

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

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

Yes, "Digital Citizenship" is published Open Access. It is available under a BY-NC-ND license.

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for "Digital Citizenship" is 10.11116/9789461667779.