netizenry

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/ˈnɛtɪzənɹi/

noun

A collection of netizens.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounnetizenry (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA collection of netizens.

    Hostility to foreigners extends well beyond the anonymous netizenry of China.

    2013, Ben Chu, Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You’ve Heard About China is Wrong, Hachette UK, →ISBN
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    By way of contrast to the technologically hip — and to date, politically impotent — netizenry, Chapman cites the Christian Coalition.

    1997, Edwin Diamond, Robert A. Silverman, White House to Your House: Media and Politics in Virtual America, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 165

    In an extension of this argument, still others argue that hypermedia both inspire and unite a burgeoning global netizenry.

    2005, Daniel Robert DeChaine, Global Humanitarianism: NGOs and the Crafting of Community, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 126

    On the Internet, anonymous netizenry routinely call Asian women hos, sluts, and ...

    2012, Geraldine Pratt, The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 235

    Certainly the low level nongovernmental organization (NGO) activity that has been going on quietly in Shenzhen for some time has been greatly enhanced by the online movement of a remarkably active netizenry in China.

    2013, C. Berry, J. Harbord, R. Moore, Public Space, Media Space, Springer, →ISBN, page 25

    The ethical and legal question about whether the wider netizenry should accept the use of multiple invented personas by individuals is most explicitly identifiable in an examination of Twitter entities (Parmelee & Bichard, 2013).

    2014, Andrew Liaropoulos, George Tsihrintzis, ECCWS2014-Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Cyber warefare and Security: ECCWS 2014, Academic Conferences Limited, →ISBN, page 43

Origin

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