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    DIGITAL SOCIETY AND

    THE INFORMATION
    AGE
    Digital technologies
    have wildly affected
    our interactions and
    activity in the 21st
    century. They have
    significantly changed
    our way of learning,
    working and
    socializing.
    In this modern world
    we rely with the use of
    modern technology
    which has led to
    considering the
    possible outcome for
    the society, concerning
    how we would take
    part in interaction, and
    how we can use these
    digital tools and
    communication
    channels.
    Having our heads of digital society in our minds, we
    first have to think of the information society; which
    are correlated with the progress and development
    of digital information and communication
    technologies to the internet at least. Information
    society plays a vital role with regards to the
    circulation and control of made-up ideas which
    affects political, economic, social and cultural
    aspects. So, what does this mean for the everyday
    citizen?
    These informative societies have paved
    many opportunities reaching bigger
    audiences like never before. With a wider
    scale of the world’s demography, primarily
    Westerners, have access to sources and
    technologies which enables them to connect
    with enough activities whether economic,
    social, political, or educational.
    We can manipulate the phasing of
    learning (e.g. free sources) or
    businesses (e.g. online selling) without
    a large sum of money used as a capital
    and we can share our ideas and
    perspectives to the international
    audiences as we connect beyond.
    What do we mean by
    digital citizenship?
    Now, one of the main terms in the modern
    world is the ‘digital citizen’.
    What does this actually mean? A digital citizen is
    a person who is knowledgeable and responsible
    enough to effectively use different social
    platforms in the internet. They often engage in
    useful topics and issues that will help build a
    better society, politics and government. If we
    will dig deeper, digital citizenship might look
    simple.
    We might think that it is just about using
    the internet safely. However, we also need to
    consider and understand that
    this citizenship can get complicated, especially if
    we are going to criticize and
    show interest in sensitive topics as we start to
    become a digital citizen, using
    digital media to actively participate in society
    and politics.
    If we look a little closer at the field of ‘citizenship
    studies’ this will lead us to a better understanding of
    what digital society really means. A citizen is defined as
    an individual character who is viewed as a member of
    a society while citizenship considers an individual’s
    behavior in terms of rights, obligations and functions
    of said citizen. Being a citizen of a state requires tons of
    obligations and duties such as work, taxation and
    obedience of laws.
    On the other hand, citizens also have their rights, it
    includes civil rights such as freedom of speech and
    expression, to stand for what we believe in, and
    rights to a private life; political rights, or the right to
    vote and social rights to health care and welfare. In
    this course we will tackle these rights as we look at
    real definition of what it means to be a citizen in the
    modern society and how legislation and the
    government shape our ability to be democratic
    citizens who can stand for the truth

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