Abstract
<p style="text-align:justify">With the rapid pace of technological and digital change, the use of mass communication and digital communication tools, and internet usage have become very prevalent and thus digital citizenship education has become a necessity for individuals so that they can effectively use these technologies. In this respect, in-class and out-of-class activities play a crucial role in developing students’ digital citizenship competencies in social studies education. Teacher candidates’ perception of digital citizenship will influence students as well. The objective of the current study is to identify the perception of the social studies teacher candidates towards digital citizenship. A descriptive cross-sectional screening model was utilized in the study. The sample of the study is composed of senior teacher candidates attending the Social Studies Teaching Department, Faculty of Education of Ege University in the 2016-2017 academic year. Digital Citizenship Attitude Scale was employed to identify the perceptions of teacher candidates towards digital citizenship. The analysis of the results in the context of subdimensions indicates that no statistically significant difference was found by the gender variable, however significant differences was observed in digital citizenship levels of the teacher candidates according to the variables of owning a personal computer, age and years of experience in computer use.</p>
Highlights
In today’s world, people are immensely influenced by the technology they use in their daily lives
The current study examined whether digital citizenship levels of the social studies teacher candidates significantly differed according to the various variables identified
Since the 1990s, citizenship studies have become institutionalized under the influence of postmodernism and globalization and the concept of citizenship has been redefined in various fields and correspondingly such new disciplines like gender-oriented citizenship, environmental citizenship, cultural citizenship, global citizenship and multicultural citizenship have taken their places in the literature (Isin & Turner, 2002)
Summary
In today’s world, people are immensely influenced by the technology they use in their daily lives. Technology has moved the interaction among people into a new dimension This new dimension of communication has brought a new concept of society characterized as “network society” and the individuals who live in this society have been defined as digital citizens (Castells, 2000).The concept of digital citizenship or the new society addresses to an evolution and change which our society today cannot resist (Kocadag, 2012). The citizen is defined as a person who is entitled to benefit all the legal rights and duties granted by a state to the people comprising its constituency. Due to the rapid advances in our era, the perception of citizenship are constantly changing and evolving and the term of citizenship have been called as follows: ecological citizenship, environmental citizenship, constitutional citizenship, nationality law, European Union citizenship, global citizenship, multicultural citizenship and digital citizenship (Bakir, 2016; Kilinc, 2015)
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