What is the digital citizenship

Digital citizenship means those people who have ability to live in the digital world productively and be a contributing member to society. And author concluded four fundamental elements according to the meaning of digital citizenship. First of all, digital citizenship should know the nature of digital world. Considering that, it needs them to understand digital world is ever growing and expanding. I can feel it in person actually, especially on online shipping and online paying kinds of fees. Technology are making the society more and more digital and most of people are involved in this campaign. Author also demand us to understand blurring boundaries between real and virtual. With the rapid development of technology, real is part of virtual and virtual is real. Almost activities we only could do in real life in the past can be done in virtual community now. And we can see the real effect or receive truly thing through making effort on Internet. Furthermore, virtual community broke the space and time, so it provides more opportunities for business and create new ways to work and have fun. But every coin has two sides, as for new ways to entertain, some teenagers are addicted to computer games and have no time to study, even have no time to sleep, that influenced their life a lot. There are lots of cyberbullies because of convenience provided by technology. They don’t need to take any consequence and can attack anyone at anywhere anytime just for mood, even aims to some people they rarely know. With these understandings, digital citizens are able to face the uncertainly and expect changes that technology brings, make preparations to adopt changes and become the part of digital world, become a useful and legal member of digital world.