netizen
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thumb | right | alt=alt=Refer to caption | Area Cartogram: Internet Users in East Asia, 2008 The term netizen is a portmanteau of the English words internet and citizen, as in a "citizen of the net" or "net citizen." It describes a person actively involved in online communities or the Internet in general.
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It is catalogued under topics including Citizenship, Culture articles needing translation from Chinese Wikipedia and Cyberspace.
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
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- person
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- Netizens
- female form of label
- državljanka spleta
- facet of
- internet culture
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thumb | right | alt=alt=Refer to caption | Area Cartogram: Internet Users in East Asia, 2008 The term netizen is a portmanteau of the English words internet and citizen, as in a "citizen of the net" or "net citizen." It describes a person actively involved in online communities or the Internet in general.
The term also commonly implies an interest and active engagement in improving the internet, making it an intellectual and a social resource, or its surrounding political structures, especially in regard to open access, net neutrality and free speech. The term was widely adopted in the mid-1990s as a way to describe those who inhabit the new geography of the internet. Internet pioneer and author Michael F. Hauben is credited with coining and popularizing the term.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “netizen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.