How would you define Cyberspace?

Contexto Internacional

This article is based on the premise that the increasing human interaction in cyberspace elevates it to the level of a strategic domain and, as such, raises theoretical and practical challenges for International Relations. It is founded on an epistemological reflection on the fundamental assumptions of the paradigms that permeate International Relations. The main objective is to conceptualise cyberspace as the strategic domain in the 21st century, as well as to develop an analytical framework that will both provide evidence and investigate the resilience of the foundations of current International Relations, these being specifically, the following precepts: i) sovereignty based on territoriality, ii) state monopoly of power, and iii) accountability between international actors. With this in mind, the approach refers to defence documentation and scientific sources in order to reach a definition that will characterise cyberspace, considering its technical, scientific and strategic asp...

International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, 2020

Cyberization gives rise to divergence of cyberspace concepts-cyberspaces to general cyberspace; cybermatics to cyberSciTech; cyber-enabled worlds to cyber-physical-social-thinking hyperspace etc. That is, Cyberspace perception and conceptualization have become more complex with time, due to scalability and as new terms and ideas are added, leading to continues proliferation creating a need for solid characterization. Existing theories are reach and therefore articulated to better understand the physical social thinking hyperspace notion of cyberspace. This paper presents a meaningful inter-disciplinary, transdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary integration of cyber philosophy, cyber science, and cyber information to present theoretic perspectives on cyberspace-Formal cyberspace. Three main aspects ontology, topological dynamics, and information respectively considered in terms of philosophy, theory in network science, and information theory to define existence of cyberspatial entity.

Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, 1994

The instant, worldwide exchange of information among scholars~egreed and tenured and otherwise--via the Internet and its sundry computer nodes and pathways has created a learning "cyberspace," new electronic fora accessible to people anywhere in the world with telephones and personal computers, and thus located everywhere but nowhere (or in no one physical place). As Marshall McLuhan aptly pointed out more than a quarter of a century ago, the concept of a center and margins flows from a world in which ideas are expressed and disseminated on pages of fixed lines and four frozen edges.I In contrast, words in electronic text move through ever-renewable venues of all centers and no fixed tops and bottoms and margins (or all margins and no centers, which amounts to the same equi-accessible situation). The cognitive and social dimensions of these new realms differ in many ways from the traditional in-person scholarly locales of universities, think-tanks, and libraries closed after midnight.

Cyberspace: A theatre for conflicts, Disputes and Exploitations , 2022

Cyberspace is a necessary evil that needs more security.

Brief synopsis of internet technology's effect on society.

Columbia Law Review Vol, 2007

The appropriate role of place-and space-based metaphors for the Internet and its constituent nodes and networks is hotly contested. This Essay seeks to provoke critical reflection on the implications of place-and spacebased theories of cyberspace for the ongoing production of networked space more generally. It argues, first, that adherents of the "cyberspace" metaphor have been insufficiently sensitive to the ways in which theories of cyberspace as space themselves function as acts of social construction. Specifically, the leading theories all have deployed the metaphoric construct of cyberspace to situate cyberspace, explicitly or implicitly, as separate space. This denies all of the ways in which cyberspace operates as both extension and evolution of everyday spatial practice. Next, it argues that critics of the "cyberspace" metaphor have confused two senses of space and two senses of metaphor. The cyberspace metaphor does not refer to abstract, Cartesian space, but instead expresses an experienced spatiality mediated by embodied human cognition. Cyberspace in this sense is relative, mutable, and constituted via the interactions among practice, conceptualization, and representation. The insights drawn from this exercise suggest a very different way of understanding both the spatiality of cyberspace and its architectural and regulatory challenges. In particular, they suggest closer attention to three ongoing shifts: the emergence of a new sense of social space, which I call networked space; the interpenetration of embodied, formerly bounded space by networked space; and the ways in which these developments alter, instantiate, and disrupt geographies of power.

2001

This paper begins with a long-term view of the development of cyberspace. This includes a brief examination of the worldview of a 16th-century mapmaker and over 4000 years of development from the early massive bureaucracies of Babylon and Egypt to the current day. This discussion shows that cyberspace is becoming an everyday experience and we need to design tools to help people navigate electronic spaces and methods to design the structure of those spaces. The paper moves on to look at the changing face of user interfaces from the business-oriented 'one man and his machine' view of the 1980s to a rich interplay of multiple people interacting with multiple devices often at home or at leisure. Coping with such a radically different world requires general design principles and the latter part of the paper considers various very broad design principles and issues and their applications in HCI and in cyberspace design. every man, woman and child: text messages on mobile phones, bank ATMs, smartcards or simply the television. These flows of information don't just connect and reconnect distant points of the world, they also layer whole new virtual geographies. Relationships are not only mediated by technology, but they often find their focus in artefacts that only exist within the electronic world.

2020

At the same time that cyberspace has created some opportunities, such as higher efficiency of critical infrastructures and a lower barrier cost venue for non-state actors to project their ideas and voices, the securitisation of the digital domain happens. Society's collective imaginary has already created some catastrophic scenario projections directed to states and military manoeuvres. Besides, recent geopolitical movements related to emerging technologies, have rekindled ideas towards power in cyberspace. These developments increase concerns about instability in cyberspace and deserve some consideration and more in-depth debate.

Teknokultura, 2002

This paper serves as a review of the literature and existing research in the area of spatial, in particular urban, approaches and geographical studies of cyberspace. Therefore, it develops a theoretical debate regarding the spatial conception and embodiment of cyberspace. The central point of the debate is concerned with the provocative question of the ‘end of geography’. Under this very fundamental question two interrelated issues are examined: the prospects of ‘urban dissolution’ and ‘virtual community’. The paper then integrates its theoretical framework, by refuting technological determinism and arguing that technologies are applied within rather from outside society. Thus, it is argued that place/space and cyberspace are interrelated and can be seen to influence and shape each other.