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Article: Does Education Background Affect Digital Equal Opportunity and the Political Participation of Sustainable Digital Citizens? A Taiwan Case

TitleDoes Education Background Affect Digital Equal Opportunity and the Political Participation of Sustainable Digital Citizens? A Taiwan Case
Authors
Keywordssustainable digital citizenship
digital literacy
digital equal opportunity
political participation
multi-group analysis
Issue Date2020
PublisherMDPI. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability
Citation
Sustainability, 2020, v. 12 n. 4, p. article no. 1359 How to Cite?
AbstractThe purpose of this article is to examine the level of digital equity and political participation in Taiwan. In this study, we argue that high digital literacy and active civic participation facilitate the formation of sustainable digital citizenship. We review the development of digital education policy in Taiwan since the 1990s. Based on the nationwide survey dataset prepared by Taiwan’s National Development Council in 2018, we examine the relations between digital literacy, digital social life, the digitalized acquisition of government information, and the political participation of digital citizens. We adopt a structural equation modeling approach and perform the multi-group analysis to validate our proposed model of digital equal opportunity. The results show that there are significantly positive relations between the four digital latent variables, but no statistically significant differences between interviewees with high and low education backgrounds in the relations with these variables. In addition, our findings reveal that the digital social life of digital citizens indirectly affects their political participation through their digitalized acquisition of government information. This paper also discusses the implications of digital education policy and the formation of sustainable digital citizenship.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/283285
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2023 Impact Factor: 3.3
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.672
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dc.contributor.authorChen, CH-
dc.contributor.authorLiu, CL-
dc.contributor.authorHui, BPH-
dc.contributor.authorChung, ML-
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-22T02:54:33Z-
dc.date.available2020-06-22T02:54:33Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationSustainability, 2020, v. 12 n. 4, p. article no. 1359-
dc.identifier.issn2071-1050-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/283285-
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this article is to examine the level of digital equity and political participation in Taiwan. In this study, we argue that high digital literacy and active civic participation facilitate the formation of sustainable digital citizenship. We review the development of digital education policy in Taiwan since the 1990s. Based on the nationwide survey dataset prepared by Taiwan’s National Development Council in 2018, we examine the relations between digital literacy, digital social life, the digitalized acquisition of government information, and the political participation of digital citizens. We adopt a structural equation modeling approach and perform the multi-group analysis to validate our proposed model of digital equal opportunity. The results show that there are significantly positive relations between the four digital latent variables, but no statistically significant differences between interviewees with high and low education backgrounds in the relations with these variables. In addition, our findings reveal that the digital social life of digital citizens indirectly affects their political participation through their digitalized acquisition of government information. This paper also discusses the implications of digital education policy and the formation of sustainable digital citizenship.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherMDPI. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability-
dc.relation.ispartofSustainability-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectsustainable digital citizenship-
dc.subjectdigital literacy-
dc.subjectdigital equal opportunity-
dc.subjectpolitical participation-
dc.subjectmulti-group analysis-
dc.titleDoes Education Background Affect Digital Equal Opportunity and the Political Participation of Sustainable Digital Citizens? A Taiwan Case-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailHui, BPH: bryant09@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityHui, BPH=rp02495-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/su12041359-
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dc.identifier.hkuros310548-
dc.identifier.volume12-
dc.identifier.issue4-
dc.identifier.spagearticle no. 1359-
dc.identifier.epagearticle no. 1359-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000522460200077-
dc.publisher.placeBasel, Switzerland-
dc.identifier.issnl2071-1050-

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