cyberbole
nounUK /saɪˈbɜːbəli/ · US /saɪˈbɝbəli/
Etymology Coined by Steve Woolgar as blend of cyber + hyperbole in Technology, Cyberbole, Reality (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002).
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Exaggerated claims about what the internet and information technology will accomplish.
- The first step toward finding a way out of this place begins when we take a flamethrower to Newt Gingrich cum Alvin Toffler style laissez-faire futurism, which entrusts our collective fate to the tender mercies of the marketplace, or New Age cyberbole that would have us pin our hopes to a millennial blastoff.2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, →ISBN, page 1742:
- Regardless of whether one is wired or not, it is impossible to avoid the hype or cyberbole surrounding the Internet.2005, Zaheer Baber, CyberAsia: The Internet And Society in Asia, →ISBN, page 57:
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- While some might claim that we can now declare the end of the 'cyberbole' (Woolgar, 2002), the aim of this collection is not to recap or evaluate these literatures and debates.2013, K. Orton-Johnson, N. Prior, Digital Sociology: Critical Perspectives, →ISBN, page 1: