E-Citizenship and Higher Education: Analysis of Digital Knowledge in a Mexican University

The digital citizenship or e-citizenship is linked to the demands that the labor, educational and cultural world pose to the individuals of the 21st century. In that sense, the role that universities have to play to train critical and literate subjects in highly digital environments is preponderant, since it is the HEIs historically responsible for generating, transferring and applying new knowledge. Thus, this article presents an empirical research that evaluates digital knowledge in upper-level students, the data was collected in a Mexican institution located in the northwest of the country. The sample consists of 346 subjects divided into high and low university, we worked with the hypothesis that technological knowledge is related to the degree of progress in the scholar curriculum, that is, longer years of study would have to favor high levels of "Digital citizenship". To do this, statistical tests of Chi-Square and comparison of frequencies were made from the crossover variable (advance in the program), the results show that the scholar curriculum is not necessarily a preponderant variable to possess high digital knowledge.