Meanings
- The connected virtual world that users can interact with by means of computer networks; cyberspace.
Developments in 'cyberia', the Internet and so on have both inspired and been interpreted by theories of postmodernity.
1996, Peter Dickens, Reconstructing nature: alienation, emancipation and the division of labour3 more examples
If cyberia is a threat to real governments, in the near future they may begin to use computerized monitoring as a way to better understand, control, and probably tax the behavior of netizens.
1999, Thomas A. Peters, Computerized monitoring and online privacyWe may lament the risks endemic to an embodied world where we are embedded with objects and others in local situations, but the idea of living in boundless Cyberia, where everyone is telepresent to everyone and everything, makes no sense.
2001, Hubert L. Dreyfus, On the InternetThe article presents an idea of cyberia as a civil society & uses four categories to present challenges that this type of society brings to the idea of the public sphere: interactivity, subjectivity, media, & site.
2002, Leo P. Chall, Sociological abstracts, Volume 50, Issue 1
Origin
From cyber-, influenced by Siberia.
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