Editing Netizen (section)

{{Short description|"Internet citizen"; a person involved in Internet communities}}
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The term '''''netizen''''' is a [[portmanteau]] of the [[English language|English]] words ''[[internet]]'' and ''[[citizen]]'',<ref name="Vendetti2020">{{cite book|author=Tyler Vendetti|title=The Illustrated Compendium of Weirdly Specific Words: Including Bumbledom, Jumentous, Spaghettification, and More|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FabODwAAQBAJ&pg=PT70|date=3 March 2020|publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]]|isbn=978-1-73251-266-5|pages=70–|access-date=March 28, 2021|archive-date=May 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507032245/https://books.google.com/books?id=FabODwAAQBAJ&pg=PT70|url-status=live}}</ref> as in a "citizen of the net" or "net citizen".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Seese|first1=Michael|isbn=978-1600051326|page=130|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3noNR3IfSpgC&q=citizen+of+the+net&pg=PA130|title=Scrappy Information Security|year=2009|publisher=Happy About |access-date=5 June 2015|archive-date=September 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905151414/https://books.google.com/books?id=3noNR3IfSpgC&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=citizen+of+the+net|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Hauben|first1=Michael|title=The Expanding Commonwealth of Learning: Printing and the Net|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/CS/printing.txt|website=columbia.edu|access-date=5 June 2015|archive-date=May 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501082710/http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/CS/printing.txt|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Hauben|first1=Michael F.|title=The Netizens and Community Networks - Presented at the Hypernetwork '95 Beppu Bay Conference|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/text/bbc95spch.txt|access-date=6 June 2015|date=24 November 1995|archive-date=October 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009111930/http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/text/bbc95spch.txt|url-status=live}}</ref> It describes a person<ref name="amelia">{{cite web|last1=DeLoach|first1=Amelia|title=What Does it Mean to be a Netizen?|url=http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1996/sep/callnet.html|access-date=6 June 2015|date=September 1996|archive-date=January 11, 1997|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970111062019/http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1996/sep/callnet.html|url-status=live}}</ref> actively involved in [[Online community|online communities]] or the Internet in general.<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/netizen ''netizen''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421223939/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/netizen |date=April 21, 2012 }}, Dictionary.com</ref><ref name=Hauben>[http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x01 ''The Net and Netizens by Michael Hauben''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604214312/http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x01 |date=June 4, 2011 }}, Columbia University.</ref>

The term also commonly implies an interest and active engagement in improving the internet, making it an intellectual and a social resource,<ref name="amelia"/> or its surrounding political structures, especially in regard to [[open access]], [[net neutrality]] and [[Freedom of speech#The Internet and information society|free speech]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212636,00.html |title=''What is netizen? definition'' |access-date=October 2, 2011 |archive-date=April 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429115816/http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212636,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The term was widely adopted in the mid-1990s as a way to describe those who inhabit the new geography of the internet.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Thompson|first1=Steven John|title=Global Issues and Ethical Considerations in Human Enhancement Technologies|date=April 30, 2014|isbn=978-1466660106|page=4|publisher=IGI Global |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DBGXBQAAQBAJ&q=netizen+inhabit&pg=PA4|access-date=6 June 2015}}</ref> Internet pioneer and author [[Michael F. Hauben]] is credited with coining and popularizing the term.<ref name="amelia"/><ref>{{cite web|last1=Butler|first1=Simon|title=Michael F. Hauben|url=http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/your_columbians/michael_hauben.html|website=c250.columbia.edu|access-date=6 June 2015|archive-date=August 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814060737/http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/your_columbians/michael_hauben.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Hauben|first1=Ronda|title=Internet PIONEER Michael Hauben|url=http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/hauben.html|website=edu-cyberpg.com|access-date=6 June 2015|archive-date=January 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200122200440/https://edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/hauben.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="heise">{{cite web|last1=Horvath|first1=John|title=Death of a Netizen|url=http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/9/9180/1.html|publisher=Heise Online|access-date=6 June 2015|date=27 July 2001|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924162800/http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/9/9180/1.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="regis">{{cite web|last1=Orlowski|first1=Andrew|title=Michael Hauben, Netizen mati, dies|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/30/michael_hauben_netizen_dies/|publisher=The Register|access-date=6 June 2015|date=30 June 2001|archive-date=August 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810133714/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/30/michael_hauben_netizen_dies//|url-status=live}}</ref>