Cyberspace: A Culture

After reading "Why Cyberculture?" in A Media Studies Reader, I have come to understand how expansive not only the term cyberspace is, but also the ideas and theories behind it which make up the online community we are; a Cyberculture. We all play a role in what Cyberculture is today, whether its just casually surfing the web and using social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, or imputing data and creating websites, or downloading the apps on all of our smart devices. I agree with article on how many of us relate the term cyberspace to have a more nostalgic meaning, but it also leads me to wonder why that is? Cyberspace still essentially exists today, but perhaps we now think of it in a different way, relating that old term to the turning point in technology and online usage by more and more people. Today we all seem to be more technology-literate, having access to computers and software at a much younger age than generations before us. So perhaps it is now not such a far away, somewhat foreign concept to the majority of our population, because children today are living in a time where they were never without such technologies, where as people my grandparents age, for example, lived in a world before computers, cable, color television, even the space program! I believe in this particular case, that technology and our advancement into a Cyberculture is all in the eye of the beholder...or the mind of the reader.

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