# netizen
## English
### Alternative forms

* Netizen

### Etymology

Blend of Net (“Internet”) +‎ citizen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɛ.tɪ.zən/
* Rhymes: -ɛtɪzən
* Hyphenation: ne‧ti‧zen

### Noun

netizen (plural netizens)
* (Internet) A member of the community of Internet users.
    Synonyms: Internet user, cybercitizen, cybernaut, internaut
    The netizen posted their question on the forum.
** 2001, David Crystal, “A linguistic perspective”, in Language and the Internet‎, Cambridge: The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, published 2002, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:Do we have to learn a new kind of language — ‘Netspeak’, as I shall call it — in order to be a netizen?
** 2012 January 19, Johnathan Weisman, “Web Rises Up To Deflect Bills Seen as Threat”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 19 January 2012, page A1:It appeared by Wednesday evening that Congress would follow Bank of America, Netflix and Verizon as the latest institution to change course in the face of a netizen revolt.
** 2020 January 21, Katyanna Quach, “How a Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code – and was fired from dream SV job”, in The Register‎, archived from the original on 23 January 2020:A $25,000 (£19,000) prize pool was established to reward the best solutions, and the competition was hosted on Kaggle – a Google-owned platform used by more than a million netizens to build AI models, find and share datasets, and collaborate with fellow Kagglers.
** 2021 December 9, Keoni Everington, “German video game ad labels China 'West Taiwan'”, in Taiwan News‎, archived from the original on 09 December 2021:The use of the term "West Taiwan" (西台灣) to mock China has steadily grown in popularity since January 2020 when President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said that Beijing needs to face the reality that Taiwan is already an independent country. At the time, netizens conjured terms such as "Mainland Taiwan," "Taiwanese Beijing," and "West Taiwan" to agitate Chinese nationalists, censors, and trolls.

#### Usage notes

* The term netizen is commonly used in mainland China-based reporting in English to translate the Chinese-language term 網民 / 网民 (wǎngmín) and 網友 / 网友 (wǎngyǒu), far more frequently than in other contexts.

#### Derived terms

* netizenry

#### See also

* Twittizen

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Brian Fung (2012 October 11) “'Netizen': Why Is This Goofy-Sounding Word So Important in China?”, in The Atlantic
* ↑ Matt Schiavenza (2013 September 25) “Enough With the Word 'Netizen'”, in The Atlantic

### Further reading

* “netizen”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* netizen,Internet user at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

### Anagrams

* netzine

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English netizen.

### Noun

netizen (plural netizen-netizen)
* synonym of warganet (“netizen”).

### Further reading

* “netizen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English netizen.

### Noun

netizen m
* netizen
    Synonym: cybercitizen
** 2020 September 29, Raimondo Bultrini, “Amnesty lascia l'India: "Trattati come criminali. Da governo, caccia alle streghe" [Amnesty leaves India: "Treated like criminals. From the government, witchhunt"]”, in la Repubblica‎:Amnesty non è la sola a subire la pressione di un esecutivo supportato da decine di migliaia di post di netizen veri o fasulli creati dalla "Cellula IT" del Partito di maggioranza Bjp per diffamare ogni forma di opposizione.Amnesty is not alone in being pressured by an executive supported by tens of thousands of posts by real or bogus netizens created by the "IT Cell" of the majority BJP Party to defame all forms of opposition.