Digital Citizenship

Based on the different understandings of “digital citizenship” developed over the last few years, this article points to research pathways to further our understanding of the practices, meanings and issues it encompasses. “Digital citizenship” refers both to the command of technologies and to the constant (re)evaluation of political action in increasingly reflexive societies. The concept raises questions which are still insufficiently explored, particularly relating to its legal characterization, to the allegiances it could entail, and to the role of the institutions constituted within or around digital spaces. The long-term processes underpinning the construction of such citizenship and the analysis of the inequalities weighing on “digital citizenship”, particularly in terms of civic and technological competences, require the articulation of a variety of methods.