CYBERSPACE

- The electronic medium of computer networks, in which online communication takes place (Dictionary.com).
From Tara McPherson’s ““White Guys, the South, and Cyberspace”:
- Stone: cyberspace functions as a kind of public theater, “a base for [the] cyborg” suggesting that in their play these cyborgs are rewriting the standard of the bounded, embodied individual” (118).
- According to Sherry Turkle, cyberspace allows people to create any identity or multiple identities, and be able to cycle through them as they choose (118).
- Rheingold: celebrated the Internet’s ability to overcome geographical boundaries, envisioning it as a kind of yellow brick road (118).