Citizenship in the Information and Knowledge Society

Abstract

Recently, the digital divide has been the main factor of exclusion in the dynamics of the Information and Knowledge Society (SIC). To be a digital citizen, three conditions are considered: access, use and appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (TIC). This article aims to describe the digital divide as a factor that affects the construction of digital citizenship. It reviews the vicissitudes of citizenship, from classical Greece to the present, a conception of digital citizenship and the main obstacles to its effective exercise in the SIC. The laws have an advance in guaranteeing the rights of the digital citizen, however, the digital divide goes beyond formal recognition, it is a multidimensional, systematic and linear process that affects the real exercise of those rights