Title: How to live with the future of electronic technology: re-defining the digital citizenship scale

Authors: Besfort Rrecaj; Senem Demirkıran; Esin Ömer Ulukaya; Mehmet Ali Yücel; M. Kenan Terzioğlu

Addresses: Faculty of Law, University of Prishtina, Pristina, 10000, Kosovo ' Department of Law (Justice Program), Ipsala Vocational College, Trakya University, Edirne, 22030, Turkey ' Faculty of Letters Department of Balkan Languages and Literatures, Trakya University, Edirne, 22030, Turkey ' Institute of Social Sciences, Trakya University, Edirne, 22030, Turkey ' Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Econometrics Department, Trakya University, Edirne, 22030, Turkey

Abstract: Digital technologies that have entered life with the digital age and their increasingly intensive use are transforming the ways of communicating and working. In addition to these changes in daily life, the relationship between the state and the citizen is also changing, and citizens' demands from the state and the state's provision of services to citizens differ. Digital-based demands and digital-based public service offerings reveal and strengthen the concept of 'digital citizenship'. However, the concept of digital citizenship is starting to become conceptually inadequate as a result of the development of technologies used and the increasing use of it in social life. In this context, in this paper, the academic literature on the concept of digital citizenship is systematically reviewed, and a comprehensive framework is presented by developing a new digital citizenship scale with the digital citizenship research conducted in Türkiye and Kosovo.

Keywords: digitalisation; digital citizenship; digital entrepreneurship; digital empathy; digital creativity; digital aggression; scale development.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2024.138432

International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2024 Vol.16 No.1, pp.110 - 140

Received: 02 Oct 2023
Accepted: 20 Dec 2023
Published online: 03 May 2024 *

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