abstract:A digital citizen commonly refers to a person utilizing information technology (IT) in order to engage in society, politics, and government participation. K.
"A citizen scientist outside Peoria actually sent in a photograph of a species of bumblebee, the rusty patched bumblebee,bombus affinis, that was thought to have gone extinct in that area, and was recovered by a private citizen with a digital camera."
VOA: special.2011.05.24
Other interesting speakers included Amanda Koster, an internationally acclaimed photographer and founder of SalaamGarage, a digital storytelling organization that sends citizen journalists to interesting places and helps them tell the stories of people they meet.
The digital deadline is two short years away ( unless Public Citizen has their way) and there are still large, looming questions about the digital converter boxes that million of Americans are going to need.