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Digital Citizenship

Digital technologies are fundamentally changing how we organise democratic governance and legal systems. Our digital and networked world offers innovative new tools and unprecedented access to information and democratic participation. These developments present opportunities, but also challenges, for the protection of democracy.

Citizenship in a digital society thus requires new skills, competencies, attitudes and behavior. In this cross-cutting theme, the social sciences and humanities, law and economics are collaborating to an extent previously unknown to the domain.

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Esther Weltevrede is Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture in the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam. Her research explores the various research affordances of digital media, with a specific interest in conceptual and methodological innovations in the study of mobile apps and the market for social media engagements. 

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