Digital Citizenship

Digital Citizenship refers to the responsible use of online digital technology. It encompasses nine foundational digital principles that focus on etiquette, communication, literacy, access, commerce, law, rights and responsibilities, security (self-protection), health and wellness (Ribble, 2017). Better said, it means that as a user of digital information, you need to learn and understand how to respect the rights and opinions of others while protecting your safety, integrity, private information, and digital work. Digital Citizenship can be likened to the U.S. Constitution as it offers governance for our omnipresent global digital community.

DigitalCitizenship.net describes a digital user's responsibility in the following terms:

• • • To lead and assist others in building positive digital experiences

    • To recognize that our actions have consequences to others

    • To participate in a manner for the common good

Because there are many nuances within each of the nine tenets of digital citizenship, this graduate school Wiki project is narrow in its focus and offers only educational information on two themes of Digital Citizenship: Digital Law and Digital Access. Likewise, because this student project is time-limited, only an introduction to these topics will be offered vs. broad detail.