Ethics and its technological implications for digital citizenship in the scope of autism spectrum disorder (asd): contemporary perspectives

This paper outlines the ethics based on the perspective of digital citizenship, encompassing the efforts of contemporaneous society to empower and legitimize, through ethical behaviors and appropriate actions, the efficient use of technology, as well as the development of citizenship and the digital inclusion of students with ASD, by facing the contemporary technological challenges. The research presented an investigative study focused on a qualitative and exploratory approach, based on document and discourse analysis, aimed to establish a correlation between concepts that support social behavior (ethics) and present-day relationships, especially the virtual ones, materialized by the expansion of digital information and communication technologies. These connections have resulted in the emerging of new requirements for behavioral conduct, the so called digital citizenship. And, from this standpoint, ethics in digital citizenship is a way to overcome paradigms, obstacles, and challenges, with the purpose of integrating all students - in particular the ASD student, the main focus of this paper - in the current technological educational scenario, improving education to the highest digital standards and, consequently, contributing to the development and transformation of the student as a citizen in the digital era.