Netizens Digest

Netizens-Digest, short for 'Netizens Association Discussion List Digest'.

What is a Netizen?

According to the author: Well, that is a very good question. In conducting research on-line to determine people's uses for the Net in early 1990s, I became very excited at the prospects of this new social institution. In response to the excitement others had (and which I also had), I felt that the people I was writing about were citizens of the Net. Sometimes people on the Net would call the users of the Net, a net.citizen (read net citizen) as newsgroups were all originally net.x, where x was the subject and this was used in describing net entities. This idea I changed into the English Net Citizen, which further led to Netizen.