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Citizenship, identity, and access are matters of media—the products of documentation, record-keeping, and the assignment of data to people and places. From passports and Social Security numbers to email addresses and digital profiles, individuals are made legible through media systems that identify, sort, and authorize. This course approaches digital citizenship and media literacy from a media-theoretical perspective. Drawing on cultural techniques research, media logistics, and German media theory, we examine how infrastructures of inscription, address, and circulation shape what it means to be a citizen in informational societies. Rather than treating “digital citizenship” as a matter of etiquette or “media literacy” as simply critical consumption, the course reframes them as problems of infrastructure, history, and technique.