cyberutopia
nounEtymology From cyber- + utopia.
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A utopia in cyberspace or achieved by means of computer technology.
- The Matrix constructs a new discourse of race in the Digital Age, one that plugs us in to our own dreamworlds about cyberutopias and cyberfutures.2002, Lisa Nakamura, Cybertypes […] , Routledge, →ISBN:
- According to van Zoonen (2002), in cyberutopia the participants would be absent of sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion and disability.2014, Mark Vicars, Tarquam McKenna, editors, Discourse, Power, and Resistance Down Under, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 61:
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- The conquest of America is complete, and yet the highly technologised vision of a future Islamic cyberutopia with its surfing, jetskis and starships is quite reassuring, from the point of view of an American used to correlating wealth and comfort with technological progress.2016, Scott Wilson, Great Satan's rage: American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism, Manchester University Press, →ISBN:
- This was no cyberutopia: the contribution of tech collectives responsible for the spread of hacking and tech literacy in Italian social movements goes far beyond the circulation of information and coordination; […]2020, Alessandra Renzi, Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
- Derived terms
- cyberutopian, cyberutopianism
- Related terms
- technoutopia