The Cybercitizen Identity Possible Internet Opportunities and Probable Cyber Futures

Author
Azad Ashtian
Abstract
Citizenship belongs to the information millennium and the cyberspace. From this approach, the present era should be considered as the age and context of the cyber-citizenship making, which has directed us towards identifications, identitybuildings, and cyber anti-identities; but these are inconsistent with the nature of human based and pre-cyber citizenship.
Thus the paper examines whether cyber-citizenship is superior to the pre-cyber citizenship or not? If, blessed by the presence of computer and internet, we are really more citizen and more human than our pre-cyber ancestors? If we should not be worry about the progress of cyber-citizenship, simultaneously with the degeneration of the pre-cyber human based citizenship?
The mentioned issues have guided us towards discussions on the nature of cyber and pre-cyber citizenships, their social formation, the social consequences of cybercitizenship, social cohesion, identity crisis; ethical anomy; cultural degeneration; cyber self-foundation, non-real citizenship, and the social possibilities and probabilities (Threats and Opportunities) of the cyber-citizenship. Moreover an empirical image has been reflected of cyber-citizenship in the Iranian cyberspace.

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