What is cyberspace? Where is cyberspace?

1. What is cyberspace?Where is cyberspace? Charlene Bugeja & Marija Mijovic

2. 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”.

3. What is cyberspace? • Kevin Robins continued to add on to Gibson’s 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.”

4. 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."

5. 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

6. wikiHow Lost in Space • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y77LfNNz6VE

7. 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)

8. 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’.

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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.