The 2011 Pew Research Center study, “Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites” is one of many evaluating the experience of the young on social media. Given ongoing concerns about the effects of social media on young people, the headline is hardly surprising or shocking. However, the subtitle of the report, “How American Teens Navigate the New World of Digital Citizenship,” raises a few questions1: What is digital citizenship? If social media heralds a “new world” requiring a new kind of citizenship, what are the implications for our practices of citizenship in our temporal, physical communities?
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