Teaching students to participate in online communities and society (digital citizenship [DC] education) can help them (a) protect themselves from such harmful behaviors and (b) maximize their positive affordances. This study of late adolescents (from secondary 4 to 6) will examine their evolving DC and digital literacy practices in social media and/or social networking, and explore the factors that influence them. DC will be re-conceptualized by understanding how adolescents view/act on their DCs in both cyberspace and physical space, along with their antecedents.
Principal Investigator: Prof Gu Ming Yue Michelle
Duration: 2023-2025