The 4th Wave Evolution of Digital Citizenship Concept? Proposing Digital Citizenship Concept for Malaysia Context

Online world demands new sets of characteristics to warrant the ability to cope with its constantly evolving challenges and risks. Digital citizenship, a concept introduced, focusing on new ways of learning and exploring in an online environment safely, securely, and appropriately. The evolution of digital citizenship could be seen along with the changes in technology used in education, and requires students to engage with technology longer hours than before. Thus, how can we approach the challenge of using technology actively and immersively, while maintaining sanity and wellness, and building resilience to potential online risk? Thus, this conceptual paper proposes a new concept of digital citizenship by bridging the notions of wellness and resilience from the psychology discipline into digital citizenship, for its feasibility in the Malaysian educational context. This paper argues the necessity and potential integration of the spiritual element that is lacking in the existing digital citizenship concept, which has proven its significance in enhancing wellness and resilience of adolescent in the literature. It is hoped this fourth wave of proposed digital citizenship concept would bring fruitful discussion and contribute to a better understanding of how one might better socialize online or participate with others in a positive and meaningful way. Thus, only then, digital resilience and digital wellness will be established and a better future online society will be formed.

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An Awareness of the Young Generation on Social Media

10.4018/978-1-7998-8421-7.ch012 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 206-226

Author(s):

Nazlı Çetin ◽

Gökmen Kaya

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

New Technologies ◽

Digital Culture ◽

Digital Citizenship ◽

Young Generation ◽

Educational Context ◽

Digital World ◽

Online Presence

New technologies and the digitalization process affect both social and economic structures, and this affects culture. Digital citizenship which arises from an educational context now has a major scope in digital culture as the online presence of individuals increase. In this context, the study's purpose is to reveal the awareness of the young generation, with the premise that awareness is a condition to be a digital citizen, about the digital world they live in. For this purpose, the study takes the top four social media in Turkey and follows up the awareness on data and service agreements. A survey is conducted, and the results show that the awareness levels are mostly similar but vary according to the main point of the issue.

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The Challenges of Digital Citizenship

Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership - Leveraging Technology to Improve School Safety and Student Wellbeing ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-1766-6.ch004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 47-64

Author(s):

Jud Copeland

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Criminal Behavior ◽

World Wide ◽

Digital Culture ◽

Digital Citizenship ◽

Online Environment ◽

Next Generation ◽

Marginalized Groups ◽

Use Of Technology ◽

The World

While the world wide web created opportunities for marginalized groups to have a real voice, it also created a venue for scammers, and for malicious, deliberate intent, such as hacking, criminal behavior, sexting, and cyberbullying. It becomes a question of how should we act when we are online, and what should be taught to the next generation of users? Parents often feel overwhelmed with the challenges and risks that digital culture presents to children. They want their children to take advantage of all technology has to offer; however, they also want them to stay safe and act responsibly. Parents can make sure their children are both safe and responsible by educating them about how to appropriately use technology. There is a need to openly discuss responsible use of technology. Digital citizenship is a concept providing guidelines for appropriate digital behavior. It can be an effective tool in addressing cyberbullying, sexting, security, and safety in the online environment.

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Resilience research and social marketing: the route to sustainable behaviour change

Journal of Social Marketing ◽

10.1108/jsocm-01-2018-0006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 77-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Matthew Wood

Keyword(s):

Behaviour Change ◽

Social Marketing ◽

Ecological Perspective ◽

Wicked Problem ◽

Developmental Approach ◽

Content Type ◽

Building Resilience ◽

The Social ◽

Conceptual Paper ◽

The Impact

PurposeThis paper aims to argue that resilience – and its underlying socio-ecological perspective – is a critical concept that could serve to integrate different views on, and approaches to, social marketing. The aim is to inspire social marketers to move away from narrow, issue-based interventions targeting individual behaviours and to consider the impact of social ecologies, particularly the contribution resilience research can make to behaviour change.Design/methodology/approachThis is a conceptual paper; socio-ecological models and the resilience concept are discussed and applied to a current “wicked problem” – obesity.FindingsFrom a socio-ecological perspective, research findings highlight the impact macro, meso and micro forces have on behaviour and the importance of a child’s micro-system and the influence it has on development and life outcomes. Building resilience requires a relationship-building, person-centred, holistic and long-term developmental approach to behaviour change.Research limitations/implicationsThis is a conceptual paper that introduces new concepts to the social marketing field. Future research should focus on understanding how to implement a resilience-building approach in practice – including the interrelationships and interactions between individual, family and community resilience – and how resilience can be integrated within systematic, socio-ecological thinking when addressing “wicked problems”.Practical implicationsRather than blaming and targeting individuals, the goal should be to create an environment that supports parents, families and communities to build resilience at the micro, meso and macro levels. The findings support the argument that social marketers should adopt an upstream approach to develop interventions that make the environment the primary focus. Social marketers should collaborate with, and learn from, social workers, psychologists and educationalist to further their understanding of resilience. This would have a positive, sustainable impact on a whole range of social and health issues, ultimately helping to address the overarching issue of social inequality.Social implicationsBuilding resilience amongst individuals, families and communities offer a means to achieve fundamental positive social change and to reduce social, economic and health inequality.Originality/valueThe paper offers a unique perspective on how and why resilience – and its underlying socio-ecological framework – should be applied within the social marketing field.

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