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ABSTRACT
This article presents a review of interdisciplinary scholarship on digital citizenship with 3 different approaches: unidimensional, multidimensional, and critical/radical approaches. By addressing the intersectionality as a critical framework and inquiry, this article advances the concept of digital citizenship effectively responding to the current social issues relating participatory democracy as the ultimate goal of digital citizenship education. Applying Dewey’s conceptions of democracy, the authors discuss definitions of participatory democracy and the usefulness of political participation and personalized forms of politics/citizenship to achieve participatory democracy in the era of the Internet and social media. The article concludes with recommendations for participatory democracy driven digital citizenship education in educational settings.
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Additional resources
1. Janson, L. (2020, October 1). Challenging intersectional inequality through digital media images. Gender & Society.https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2020/10/01/teaching-module-challenging-intersectional-inequality-through-digital-media-images/
This article/weblink provides lesson plans including three different teaching modules: 1) understanding a core concept of intersectionality, 2) applying concepts from the texts to digital media to build visual literacy, and 3) create mini-art exhibits. Through these step-by-step teaching modules, students can learn intersectional inequality, visual literacy skills, and digital engagement.
2. Common Sense Education (n.d.). Digital citizenship curriculum.https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/curriculum
In this website, a variety of digital citizenship related topics, lesson plans, and teaching materials are shared about how to effectively teach digital citizenshiThe website provides specific digital citizenship curriculum according to grades from kindergarten to 12th grade. Using these content-specific digital citizenship lesson plans teachers can promote students to take ownership of their digital lives.
3. Benjamin Gleason (2018) Thinking in hashtags: exploring teenagers’ new literacies practices on twitter. Learning, Media and Technology, 43, 165–180, DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2018.1462207
This article describes how high school students in the U.S. developed their digital literacy skills and online civic engagement through using teenage Twitter. The students’ participatory, reflective, and expressive activities generated by using hashtags extends to thinking about social justice, activism, and feminism. Specific examples and images were provided.