Digital Citizenship and the Relationship between Publicity, Democracy and Citizenship

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP

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Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................2
Relationship between publicity, democracy and citizenship..............................................................3
The ideals of citizenship, democracy and Publicity...........................................................................4
Transition to digital archives.............................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................7

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INTRODUCTION
The world is getting connected to many kinds of digital and this is making the people
living in it has become digital citizens (Hong, Hwang, Hsu, Wong & Chen, 2011). Digital
citizen is understood to be as the person that utilises information and technology so as to
engage in society, government, politics and many other things. The use of digital mediums
has very popular in the day to day activities of an individual. Some also terms digital citizens
as the ones who are regularly connected with the internet mediums and take effective use of it
for doing various tasks. But this term is more used for the persons who uses blogs, social
networking sites and takes part in online journalism. A person becomes the digital citizen on
the day he starts take using of online mails, posts pictures online, buys online products or
participates in any kind of electronic functions. The governments all around the world have
started to take use of the digital mediums for their operations. This brings transparency in the
system and hence helps in providing a better democratic environment. This report explains
citizenship, transparency and democracy as well as the relationship between them. It also
explains the ways in which digital means provides opportunities for social firms to become
more interactive with the social institutions.
Publicity and transparency
Publicity refers to as the openness in the life that tells about the something more clearly.
Publicity is the state of something where everything is shown without keeping anything
secret. In democratic environment publicity is a state where most of the people becomes
accountable to the society for whatever he or she is doing. Transparency is another form of
publicity and is generally attributed to any social institutions. In the state of being transparent
a social active grow up has to showcase each and every details of theirs so that everyone
remains aware of the things that are going on (Barr, 2017). In the modern day world people

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are demanding to more transparent social institutions so that they can be accountable in front
of the masses.
Democracy
Over the years a several definitions of democracy has been given. It is a form of government
that is highly accountable to the general public (Christiano, 2018). A definition given by
Abraham Lincoln states it t be a government that is “It is to the people, for the people and by
the people”. Some other definitions of democracy states that it is a form of government that is
more participatory. It allows the people from different domains to join the government. It is
the form of social institution where every suggestion of the people is heard and hence acted
upon in a more social way. The social institutions that are democratic must entertain every
kind of idea (Fallis, 2011). People have rights to do things what they want unless they are not
destroying the rights of others. A democratic form of government is more genuine and does
not supress any idea because they are in minority. The forms of government can be different
under the democracy. This is sometimes also understood to be as the form of government
where people enjoys power either directly or through their representatives. In this system
social institutes is not controlled by any single force rather a more collaborative decisions are
made as everyone has the same rights. Democracy has a more struggling nature where the
forces in social institutes have to repeatedly struggle for the realisation of their interests. They
become the devolution of power from the group of people to a set of rules.
Citizenship
It is the status of the person recognised under the laws and customs as being a legal member
of the state that is sovereign or say belong to any particular nation. It can be possible that a
person can be a multiple citizen of different states at the same time. It just depends on the
criteria they must fulfil so as to become the citizen of any particular person (Christensen &
Cheney, 2014). Many a time citizenship is understood to be as the synonym for nationality
but it is not correct and they both have a different meaning. There can be many ways in
which one can become citizen of a nation like citizen by birth or citizen by marriage etc. The
history of providing citizenship lies way back in the times of Ancient Greece where you were
considered as the legal person to live inside the nation.