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Digital Citizenship: Social Sustainability Perspective

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 8925

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Juan Sebastián Fernández-Prados

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Department of Geography, History and Humanities, Sociology Area, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
Interests: cyberactivism; social movements; digital citizenship
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Dr. Antonia Lozano-Díaz

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Department of Education, University of Almería, Almería, Spain
Interests: global citizenship education; education for development; social movements
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Dr. Cristina Cuenca-Piqueras

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School of Social Work, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
Interests: cyberharassment; cyberbullying; violence against women

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The development of the digital society and environmental challenges are intertwined along many lines. On the one hand, the digitalization of social life has led to concern not only about people's internet connection but also about their civic and responsible behavior on networks and their critical and active participation in the digital sphere. On the other hand, the environmental crisis has provoked individual and collective citizen responses, as well as global and local institutional policies that promote truly sustainable development for future generations.

From different disciplinary perspectives and social spheres, this relationship is materialized through scenarios and spaces such as education for a sustainable digital citizenship, urban planning with sustainable smart cities, environmentalist social cybermovements and the fight against climate change, policies that link the SDGs with digital citizenship, cybersecurity, etc.

In short, this monograph is open to contributions that raise questions in relation to this thematic crossroads: How digital technologies and approaches can contribute to sustainable transformation goals; How to use digital participation to achieve sustainability; How to foster citizen responsibility in sustainability issues from the digital sphere, etc.

Prof. Dr. Juan Sebastián Fernández-Prados
Dr. Antonia Lozano-Díaz
Dr. Cristina Cuenca-Piqueras
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • digital citizenship
  • sustainability
  • SDGs
  • smart city
  • digitainability
  • sustainable smart city
  • digital sustainability society
  • sustainability development
  • digital participation
  • cyberactivism
  • cybermovements
  • cybersecurity
  • social movements
  • ecologist movements

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Digital Workplaces and Information Security Behavior of Business Employees: An Empirical Study of Saudi Arabia
by Saqib Saeed
Sustainability 2023, 15(7), 6019; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su15076019 - 30 Mar 2023
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In the post pandemic era, the telecommuting of business employees has widely become acceptable in organizations, which demands extensive dependence on digital technologies. In addition, this poses additional security threats for business employees as well as organizations. In order to better respond to [...] Read more.
In the post pandemic era, the telecommuting of business employees has widely become acceptable in organizations, which demands extensive dependence on digital technologies. In addition, this poses additional security threats for business employees as well as organizations. In order to better respond to security threats, business employees must have a higher level of awareness of the potential threats that are relevant to digital infrastructure used within the workplace. In this paper, we present a quantitative study conducted in line with the theory of planned behavior to gain insight into employee behavior toward information security within different business sectors in Saudi Arabia. The key factors chosen for our model were password management, infrastructure security management, email management, organizational security policy, organizational support and training, and the perception of the level of security. We have applied structured equation modelling to identify most of the relevant factors based on the respondents’ feedback. The results based on the business employee behavior showed that they respondents did not perceive all of the constructs of our model as relevant security factors, which can potentially result in security lapses. This indicates that more security-related measures should be put in place and that business employees should be updated periodically about potential security threats. To this effect, we divided the studied security measures into those which should be implemented at organizational and individual levels. The results will potentially help business managers to design appropriate security trainings, guidelines, and policies for their employees to ensure more information security awareness and protect their technological infrastructure, especially within home office environments. Full article
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Upper-Basic Schoolteachers’ Beliefs about Their Students’ Awareness of Digital Citizenship
by Wajeeh Daher, Amal Omar, Hadeel Swaity, Bushra Allan, Sarah Dar Issa, Zahera Amer and Aseel Halabi
Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 12865; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su141912865 - 09 Oct 2022
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Students’ awareness of digital citizenship (DC) is a growing topic in educational technology. Teachers’ beliefs regarding this awareness are a primary factor to influence this awareness. The current research aimed to verify the level of upper-basic schoolteachers’ beliefs about their students’ awareness of [...] Read more.
Students’ awareness of digital citizenship (DC) is a growing topic in educational technology. Teachers’ beliefs regarding this awareness are a primary factor to influence this awareness. The current research aimed to verify the level of upper-basic schoolteachers’ beliefs about their students’ awareness of DC. It also intended to verify whether this level is significantly different due to teachers’ gender, discipline, academic qualification, and experience. The present research followed random sampling and the sample for the present research consisted of 153 teachers. The teachers were upper-basic schoolteachers that teach Arabic language, mathematics, and technology. The data were collected using a DC questionnaire, while the analysis was done using statistical exams, specifically one-sample t-test, independent-sample t-test, and ANOVA. The research results indicated that the mean score of schoolteachers’ beliefs about their students’ awareness of Cyberbullying, Digital Privacy, and Digital Netiquette was significantly higher than the good DC beliefs score, while the mean score of schoolteachers’ beliefs about their students’ awareness of Digital Identity and Digital Footprint was significantly higher than the normal DC beliefs score. In addition, the results indicated no significant differences in teachers’ beliefs about the awareness of DC’s components due to gender, academic qualification, or years of experience. Moreover, there are no significant differences in teachers’ beliefs about students’ DC’s awareness due to the discipline, except for Digital Privacy. Full article
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The Impact of Internet Use on Perception of the Poor–Rich Gap: Empirical Evidence from China
by Xiaofan Zuo and Zhisheng Hong
Sustainability 2022, 14(6), 3488; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14063488 - 16 Mar 2022
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The advancement of Internet technology has provided a great impetus to alleviate poverty and promote economic progress. However, studies on the negative impact that the development of the Internet may have on individual perceptions are still rare. This paper uses data from the [...] Read more.
The advancement of Internet technology has provided a great impetus to alleviate poverty and promote economic progress. However, studies on the negative impact that the development of the Internet may have on individual perceptions are still rare. This paper uses data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) in 2018 to construct multiple econometric models to empirically study the impact of Internet use (ITU) on the perception of the poor–rich gap (PPRG) and its mechanism in China. The instrumental variable (IV) model and Heckman model are used to solve potential endogenous problems. The research found that ITU has aggravated the PPRG of residents, and the test results are still robust after considering various endogenous sources. Additional analysis shows that the degree of dependence on the Internet is one of the transmission mechanisms of ITU on the impact of the PPRG, and its mediating effect accounts for 32.12% of the total effect. Another test result of the impact mechanism shows that the Internet media expands the reference group of residents through virtual areas and aggravates the PPRG of residents. Some test results from the perspective of heterogeneity show that: the effect of urban residents’ ITU on PPRG is higher than that of rural residents. ITU of residents in economically developed areas has a significantly higher effect on the PPRG than residents in economically underdeveloped areas. The impact on ITU by residents of different age groups on aggravating the PPRG show an obvious increasing linear law. Our research provides an ITU interpretation path for the impact of PPRG from sociological theory and provides a new entry point for the impact of the Internet and subjective well-being. Full article
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