Cyberia

English

Etymology

From cyber-, influenced by Siberia.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪɹiə

Proper noun

Cyberia

1. The connected virtual world that users can interact with by means of computer networks; cyberspace.
   • 1996, Peter Dickens, Reconstructing nature: alienation, emancipation and the division of labour:

     Developments in 'cyberia', the Internet and so on have both inspired and been interpreted by theories of postmodernity.

   • 1999, Thomas A. Peters, Computerized monitoring and online privacy:

     If cyberia is a threat to real governments, in the near future they may begin to use computerized monitoring as a way to better understand, control, and probably tax the behavior of netizens.

   • 2001, Hubert L. Dreyfus, On the Internet:

     We may lament the risks endemic to an embodied world where we are embedded with objects and others in in local situations, but the idea of living in boundless Cyberia, where everyone is telepresent to everyone and everything, makes no sense.

   • 2002, Leo P. Chall, Sociological abstracts, Volume 50, Issue 1:

     The article presents an idea of cyberia as a civil society & uses four categories to present challenges that this type of society brings to the idea of the public sphere: interactivity, subjectivity, media, & site.