About - Digital Citizenship: An Annotated Bibliography

 

This project was generously made possible through a Carnegie-Whitney grant, funded by the American Library Association.

 

Search Criteria

Articles were identified through boolean searches in education and library science databases using the terms [element] + youth, or [element] + learning, or [element] + education, or [element] + libraries. In addition, pearl growing was used to identify relevant articles within the citation lists of other articles, and then assigned an element. 

Articles selected have been primarily written between the years of 2015-2021, with primary consideration to work produced after the COVID-19 pandemic. Articles were not limited by geographic location if peer reviewed, relevant to the topic, and date of publication. 

Selected articles include peer-reviewed literature, trade journal articles which include a research component, whitepapers, and research-based reports. Books were selected if they were highly focused on the topic, or cited within other sources.

 

Databases Used

The following databases were utilized to retrieve articles: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Education Journals (Proquest), Education Research Complete (Ebsco), ERIC. In addition, this list of Open Access Journals was also utilized to search. Google Scholar was also consulted as a resource for citation searching and additional titles.

 

Distribution of Articles

Articles are distributed across the nine elements of digital citizenship (Ribble, 2015), which include:

• General digital citizenship
• Digital access
• Digital commerce
• Digital collaboration and communication
• Digital etiquette
• Digital fluency and literacy
• Digital health and wellness
• Digital law
• Digital rights and responsibilities
• Digital security and privacy (Ribble, 2015)

 

Annotations

Annotations were constructed using the purpose table, which is a model for examining the major findings of a peer-reviewed research article to share its purpose and relevance as a work within a body of literature. The purpose table guides researchers to examine the context, approach, evidence, results, and impact. The following template was used to deconstruct these elements to build the annotations. 

CONTEXT	for which environment is this article written? How is it situated within the field?
APPROACH	what research strategies and methods did authors use to approach the problem?
EVIDENCE	which instruments did the authors use to collect data?
RESULTS	what did the authors find?
IMPACT	why is this article relevant to its audience? What is the greater meaning?

 

Accessing the Resources

The resources included in this bibliography are meant to simplify the research process for readers through curation. Readers will be able to seek out the full article by using the citations and annotations. While some resources are open source and available freely online, others require database access. For articles which are not freely available online, we recommend that readers search the database of the public, academic or school libraries to find the articles, and if not available, request them through the interlibrary loan services of these libraries. Some articles may also be available by searching Google Scholar or requesting them from the authors.

 

Citation Format

This bibliography uses APA 7 as the citation format.