What is cyberspace? Where is cyberspace?

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What is cyberspace?Where is cyberspace?

• Charlene Bugeja Marija Mijovic

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What is cyberspace?

• Cyberspace is a term coined by William Gibson,
  in his sci-fi short story Burning Chrome.
• He believed cyberspace is a consensual
  hallucination.

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What is cyberspace?

• Kevin Robins continued to add on to Gibsons
  notion of a consensual hallucination He stated,
  the contemporary debate on cyberspace and
  virtual reality is something of a consensual
  hallucination too. There is a common vision of a
  future that will be different from the present,
  of a space or reality that is more desirable than
  the mundane one at presently surrounds and
  contains us. It is a tunnel vision. It has turned
  a blind eye on the world we live in.

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What is cyberspace?

• Bruce Sterling The Hacker Crackdown
• "Cyberspace is the place where a telephone
  conversation appears to occur. Not inside your
  actual phone, the plastic device on your desk.
  Not inside the other person's phone, in some
  other city. _The_place_between_ the phones. The
  indefinate place _out_there_, where the two of
  you, human beings, actually meet and
  communicate."

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What is cyberspace?

• It has also used to describe the space created
  through the confluence of electronic
  communications networks such as the internet
  which enables computer mediated communication
  (CMC) between people who may be geographically
  dispersed around the globe
• David Bell, Brian D. Loader, Nicholas Pleace,
  Douglas Schuler

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wikiHow Lost in Space

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vy77LfNNz6VE

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Where is cyberspace?

• David Bell
• Cyberspace can be defined on three-story telling
  tropes
• Material what it is (hardware)
• Symbolic what it means (building new selves and
  new worlds)
• Experiential what it does (how we experience the
  material and the symbolic)

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Where is cyberspace?

• Kevin Robins You might think of cyberspace as a
  utopian vision for post modern times. Utopia is
  nowhere (outopia), at the same time, it is also
  somewhere good (eutopia). Cyberspace is projected
  as the same kind of nowhere-somewhere.

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Where is cyberspace?

• Nicole Stenger, tells us cyberspace is like Oz
  it is, we get there, but it has no location
  it opens up a space for collective restoration,
  and for peace our future can only take on a
  luminous dimension!
• The notion of acting like god, a place in which
  you can do whatever you want.

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Cyberlibertarinism

• Refers to a perspective (some would say
  philosophy) which claims that cyberspace and the
  internet should be regarded as uncontrolled and
  unregulated electronic spaces where anyone is
  free to be whatever they wish and express
  themselves however they like
• David Bell, Brian D. Loader, Nicholas Pleace,
  Douglas Schuler

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Conclusions

• We agree with (David Bell et al), which states
  that communication is mediated through computers.
• Cyberspace is a vast reality which is close to
  impossible to measure since it is not limited
  only to geographical space, but also physical
  space and the number of users.