Digital Citizenship in a Globalized World: Week 11 Essay Analysis

This essay explores the multifaceted relationship between citizenship and globalization in the digital age. It analyzes articles discussing facial recognition technology, digital rights, algorithmic citizenship, and the governance of digital citizens. The essay highlights concerns regarding misidentification, surveillance, privacy, and the increasing influence of digital technologies on citizenship practices. It also touches upon the challenges posed to liberal-individualist approaches to citizenship by increasing digital surveillance and the creation of algorithmic identities. The essay concludes by emphasizing the growing importance of digital citizenship in democratic states and the role of technology in citizen reorganization and security.

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Citizenship and Globalisation
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WEEK 11: Vinci Davis, ‘‘Facial Recognition technology is faulty, racist, biased, abusive to
civil rights; act now to restrict misuse’ say experts to House Oversight and Reform
Committee’. Packt, 27 May 2019.
https://hub.packtpub.com/facial-recognition-technology-is-faulty-racist-biased-abusive-to-
civil-rights-act-now-to-restrict-misuse-say-experts-to-house-oversight-and-reform-
committee/
The New article discusses about a hearing held Last week. The first hearing was held by the
US house oversight and reform committee on inspecting the use of “Technology of Facial
reorganization”. The hearing was a discussion on the use of facial recognition feature by the
commercial units and the government, flaws in the technology and its impact on the liberties
and rights of civil citizen’s. At the hearing the some of the issues of this technologies were
discussed too, one of which was misidentification, which can lead to false accusations and
arrests and can be a risk for marginalized communities. According to some of the studies at
MIT on facial recognition it was found that sometimes while guessing a gender or a face
Microsoft, IBM and Amazon have error rates that last up to 30%. Through the hearing it was
decided by the Andrew G. Ferguson, Professor of Law at the University of the District of
Columbia, that facial recognition should be prohibited until clear rules are established.
Toks Oedema article on “Internet access as citizen’s right? Citizenship in the digital age”
discusses that Citizenship is a concept and a theory that allows in forming the ideologies and
issues of equal rights and social justice. Civil rights are something that allows everyone to
live life independently and it includes things such as freedom of thought, speech and faith
among the people. Digital or social rights includes every range of right such as basic
economic welfare right to participating in the heritage, it basically helps in maintaining all the
standards of the society. Citizenship and digitalization goes hand in hand if things like face

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recognitions apps come in market and government make use of it, they can help the citizens
to have their own identity and also give them freedom to live, apart from this it can reduce
things like crime.
John Cheney-Lippold article on “Jus Algoritmi: How the National Security Agency Remade
Citizenship” discusses the classification of national security agency and the documents it
realised in 2013. The article discusses about the Algorithmic Citizenship which is innovative
method of citizenship, one where the citizenship, the allegiances and a person’s rights, are
constantly being questioned, calculated, and rewritten, this also includes telephone numbers
and internet protocols. All these things can help the government to keep track of the citizens
which helps them in protecting the rights of citizens.
Jannick schou & Morten Hjeholt article on “Digital citizenship and neoliberalization:
governing digital citizens in Denmark” discusses that digital citizenship is becoming one of
the most important thing in democratic states. In today’s society government in being
dependent on the new technologies and in the era of digitalization and technologies like face
recognitions apps can help the government to make citizen reorganization more reliable and
it can help in reduction of terrorism as well