cyberutopia

English

Etymology

From cyber- +‎ utopia.

Noun

cyberutopia (plural cyberutopias)

1. A utopia in cyberspace or achieved by means of computer technology.
   • 2002, Lisa Nakamura, Cybertypes […] ‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2014, Mark Vicars, Tarquam McKenna, editors, Discourse, Power, and Resistance Down Under, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 61:

     According to van Zoonen (2002), in cyberutopia the participants would be absent of sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion and disability.

   • 2016, Scott Wilson, Great Satan's rage: American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism‎^[2], Manchester University Press, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2020, Alessandra Renzi, Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy‎^[3], U of Minnesota 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; […]

Derived terms

• cyberutopian
• cyberutopianism

See also

• technoutopia