cyberflânerie

noun

The use of the internet as a social hangout.

Meanings

nouncyberflânerie (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe use of the internet as a social hangout.

    Cyberflânerie can be seen to represent ideas that are more specific to the medium as such and thus reach further in their utopian longing.

    2004, Maren Hartmann, “Conclusion: the death of technotopias”, in Technologies and Utopias: The Cyberflaneur and the Experience of ‘Being Online’, Verlag Reinhard Fischer, →ISBN, section “User types summary”, page 269
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    Still, the fact that Brown’s coming-of-age geekness is facilitated in a substratum of a mainstream ISP (Internet Service Provider) underscores my notion of black cyberflanerie and strategic invisibility.

    2009, Anna Everett, “The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Reimaging Africanity in Cyberspace”, in Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 172

    The gleeful escape from the city encoded in celebrations of cyberflânerie is equally a feature of the hyper-realisation of urban space which largely depends on representations designed for and perpetuated by ICTs.

    2018, Debra Benita Shaw, Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space, Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd., →ISBN, page 89

    Cyberflânerie and rag-picking come to mind in Bleeding Edge (2013), where Maxine Tarnow draws on the figure of the bag lady, the crazy woman who rescues the broken and the obsolete from complete destruction, gazing downward instead of upward and scavenging for products cast out in the street.

    2022, Bastien Méresse, ““She Had Only to Drift Tonight”: Drifting as Dissent in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49”, in Marie Bouchet, Nathalie Cochoy, Isabelle Keller-Privat, Mathilde Rogez, editors, The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, →ISBN, part II (Nowhere Land?), page 159

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