المواطنة الرقمية و مدى الوعي بها لدى طلبة قسم المكتبات و الوثائق و المعلومات بجامعة أسيوط : دراسة استكشافية

Abstract EN

This paper studies the students' awareness of the digital citizenship at the library, documents and information department at Assiut University.

Specifically, their grasp of its nine pillars; namely: digital access, digital commerce, digital communication, digital literacy, digital etiquette, digital law, digital rights & responsibility, digital safety, and digital security.

Trying to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used the analytical descriptive methodology.

A questionnaire was used as a main tool for data collection.

It consisted of 73 questions distributed to nine pillars of the digital citizenship.

The sample size chosen for the study was 439 students.

Statistical data were processed using the statistical program SPSS.

The results indicate that, students' awareness in two pillars of digital citizenship achieved a excellent level, namely: digital access, and digital laws, the other pillars achieved a very good level, which are: digital rights & responsibility, digital safety, digital security, digital literacy, digital etiquette, digital communication, and digital commerce, the total degree of student's awareness of digital citizenship achieved a very good level on 86.55%.

The nature of the courses in library and information science has contributed to the formation of students' awareness of many aspects of the digital citizenship.

There were no statistically significant differences in the responses of students according to the “age” variable, and the “use of the digital devices” variable.

This means that both variables do not affect the degree of digital citizenship.

The study recommends spreading the culture of digital citizenship among youth students of the university.

This could be achieved by adding an educational course like the "Human Rights course "on digital citizenship and its facets for all university students