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Digital Literacy and Democracy

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Section 1

Digital literacy enhances one's ability to take part in activities affecting the society

through online platforms which have the desired effect of promoting inclusion

. According to

Munck

, whenever citizens engage in online communications, new communities are created in

addition to amplifying the already existing ones. With such communities’ citizens will forge one

unified voice and demand for more significant action from their leaders in regards to policy

formulation, directing political processes, and improvement of public services. Digital literacy

directly correlates to possessing more excellent knowledge on current issues of public interest

This offers support for the notion that people who have access to the internet are well informed

about issues affecting society.

Global citizenship is a way of perceiving and engaging with multiple communities

beyond nations, states, and regions

. For many people, global citizenship engagement is mainly

exercised through participation in global discourse transcending state and national barriers

through online platforms

. Digital literacy enhances political participation which can unite the

global community behind a noble cause such as climate change

Section 2

In the current society, political participation has moved beyond traditional mediums such

as audience participation forums to occupy the digital space

. Digital literacy transcends beyond

Dubow, "Civic Engagement," pp 6.

R. Munck, "Civic Engagement and Global Citizenship in a University Context: Core business or desirable add-

on?" Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 9, no. 1 (2010): xx, doi:10.1177/1474022209350102

Karen Mossberger and Caroline Tolbert, Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation (Cambridge,

MA: MIT Press, 2008), pp 48, doi:10.7551/mitpress/7428.001.0001.

Madeleine F. Green, "Global Citizenship: What Are We Talking About, and Why Does It Matter?" Trends and

Insights for International Educational Leaders, January 2012, pp 3.

Green, "Global Citizenship," pp 3.

Green, "Global Citizenship," pp 4.

. Dubow, "Civic Engagement," pp 7.

the mere ability to obtain information to evaluating and even composing and spreading

information

. As such digital literacy encourages direct citizen participation in the political

activities of a country. Digital platforms are increasingly being applied by in grass root political

movements that advocate for political causes across the globe. In 2011, the long-serving regime

in Egypt was toppled by protesters who chiefly used the social media to mobilize and stage

antigovernment demonstrations

Section 3

The first challenge arose when trying to locate suitable articles that are relevant to the

research topic. This challenge was overcome by detailed and concerted efforts of conducting

online research using the keywords “digital literacy and democratic participation” and “global

citizenship and digital literacy." The second challenge was a challenge that was relating the

information to the topic which can be overcome by a detailed reading of the articles and the

research guidelines.

The most relevant database aggregator is EBSCO that has several databases with the

most detailed being the Academic Search Complete. Using academic search complete is simple

and yielded several articles that I sifted through to locate relevant which had relevant information

to the research topic. The one still lingering issue with academic research is identifying the

related articles and picking out useful information without spending much time on them.

Learning to acquire new and use the information is a never-ending process. This involves

evaluating its authenticity and engaging others on a discourse over the issues of significance

. Mossberger and Tolbert, Digital Citizenship, pp 59.

Dubow, "Civic Engagement," pp 13.

Naheed Eltantawy and Julie B. West, "The Arab Spring| Social Media in the Egyptian Revolution: Reconsidering

Resource Mobilization Theory," International Journal of Communication 5 (2011): pp 1209.

brought about by the knowledge gleaned where critical aspects of global importance such as

global warming can be discussed.

Bibliography

Dubow, Talitha, Axelle Devaux, Christian V. Stolk, and Catriona Manville. "Civic Engagement;

How can digital technologies underpin citizen-powered democracy?" Rand Corporation

and Corsham Institute, 2017. https://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF373.html.

Eltantawy, Naheed, and Julie B. West. "The Arab Spring| Social Media in the Egyptian

Revolution: Reconsidering Resource Mobilization Theory." International Journal of

Communication 5 (2011), 1207-1224.

Green, Madeleine F. "Global Citizenship: What Are We Talking About and Why Does It

Matter?" Trends and Insights for International Educational Leaders, January 2012.

Mossberger, Karen, and Caroline Tolbert. Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society and

Participation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. doi:10.7551/mitpress/7428.001.0001.

Munck, R. "Civic Engagement and Global Citizenship in a University Context: Core business or

desirable add-on?" Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 9, no. 1 (2010), 31-41.

doi:10.1177/1474022209350102.

Nelson, Jacob L., Dan A. Lewis, and Ryan Lei. "Digital Democracy in America." Journalism &

Mass Communication Quarterly 94, no. 1 (2016), 318-334.

doi:10.1177/1077699016681969.

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