Digital Citizenship Lindgren

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In “Digital Citizenship” Simon Lindgren, discusses Digital citizenship looking at how people have an active role in using the internet and social media to engage in political conversation. Lindgren presents the idea of the ‘public sphere’ from the 1962 theory by Jürgen Habermas, by analysing the transformations and developments in media, specifically in social media platforms and how they have altered how politics and news are discussed in today’s society. Arguing that the internet and social media may have created the emergence of a new public sphere. Developed from the work of sociologists ‘Hargittai and Paul DiMaggio’, Lindgren demonstrates the five digital divisions that can affect the access and usage one may have when engaging online. They consist of technical means, the autonomy of use, skill (internet competence), social support and different …show more content…

Using Twitter as an example, he describes the social network as a “user-driven social realm for conversations and exchange.” (Lindgren, 2017) However, he argues that twitter, is mainly for entertainment due to celebrity culture, and further also criticises the limitations in word count. Twitter follows a 140-character limit which does not give enough freedom to express and develop thought out political discussion. This does not coincide with Habermas’ model of the public sphere in that “…everyone has access, and second, that participants can confer in an unrestricted way.” (Lindgren, 2017). Lindgren further develops his argument, in stating that ‘the private is public’. Meaning that what one may communicate on private social media accounts can have a “public political effect” (Lindgren, 2017) as the complexity of and developments within media can blur the lines between what is private and

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