Cyber Culture Research Articles

Resuscitating the African Oral Artistic Tradition: Towards a Re-enactment of Storytelling for Moral Rebirth among the Nigerian Youth

The study was conducted to examine the role of storytelling in the moral upbringing of the Nigerian youth. Storytelling is one of the important subgenres of the prose form of oral literature. Being a verbal art used in traditional African society for entertainment and didacticism, its usefulness in inculcating in children values, mores and cosmological beliefs of traditional African society cannot be downplayed. In recent times, however, the art seems to have suffered atrophy since it is rarely told by parents to their children. One factor responsible for this is the creeping pace of the poor economic climate currently ravaging many African countries. Suffice it to state that, a poor economy has continually forced many parents to scout for the fleeting means of survival which prevents them from spending quality time with their children. As it appears presently, storytelling seems to be threatened in Nigeria, and by extension the entire Africa, by the overbearing influence of the cyber age. Undoubtedly, the cyber culture heralds the age of technological revolution which manifests in the overwhelming use of the Internet and social media. However, the age has witnessed the evolution of several devices that ostensibly render the art of storytelling preposterous. Nevertheless, while social media is fast spreading a subversion of African traditions, it becomes increasingly important to counterbalance this trend with the art of storytelling. Consequently, this study was conducted with a view to reiterating the significance of storytelling as a veritable conduit for moral regeneration of youth and children in the quest for national development. Iwo and Evbologun, two traditionally oriented Yoruba and Bini communities acclaimed for their folkloristic enterprises, were chosen for the study. Given their cultural inclinations, the choice of these communities was informed by the need to re-evaluate the practice or otherwise of the storytelling art there. The study is anchored in structuralism to explain that cultural elements operate in an interrelated manner. Interestingly, it found that oral narrative (storytelling) is ostensibly declining among most Nigerians, though some people understand its usefulness and want it to be resuscitated.

Post Dakwah di Era Cyber Culture

The development of technology has a big influence in all aspects of life, including in da'wah. Preachers face the challenges in the era of cyber culture, where information flow and cultural development are connected with the digital space. This article discusses the relationship between da'wah and cyber culture. Accompanied by any challenges that must be faced by preachers, as well as how the right strategy to convey Islamic teachings in the current era. In another section, also stated what is called the Post Da'wah. This concept refers to the facts that have happened lately. Da'wah which initially has values ​​of the sacredity of values ​​that upholds a truth of the state is then distorted by profane values. In fact, the new technology also supports pseudo reality in da'wah. Then, da’wah becomes a tool of manipulation in order to achieve economic benefits, bodily sexism, which is displayed through symbolic visualization. Da'wah is trapped in the world of imagery. Not only that propaganda, later became a political propaganda tool to seize power and maintain power. Interest takes precedence without regard to reason. These facts are referred to as Post Da'wah.
 Keywords: Da'wah, Cyber, Culture, Strategy, Technology

CYBER CULTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA: IDENTITY AS TRASH OF INFORMATION

This article goes from the disturbing anxiety of social media users to cyber culture such as phenomenon of trash information. Some social media users feel necessary to reveal true identity while others insult identity as something that the public will never know. While in communication there are no messages in the media that contain no meaning and no messages distributed without purpose. Even though the purpose of communication is different, the purpose of information even if it is mere text. In the case of social media, these messages distort more than just meaning. With observation methods and discourse analysis knife, the research found that cyber culture in social media is more than a form of information trash because of overlapping of information is particularly unclear of user identity. The study tried to see interesting phenomena that occur especially with regard to virtual/online and real-world/offline communication patterns. Social media at some point is a place where they can be identified or just a stockpile of inconclusive information. By combining cyber cultural concept and information sircuit, this research also found of identity ambivalence in social media that end by trash of information.

DeLillos White Noise Postmodern Effects of Cyber Culture on Youths

This research paper is focused on how DeLillo’s novel White Noise posits the effects of Cyber culture over the youths because of their all-embracing engagement. The Fiction is about the admixture of the media and popular culture. Different aspects of consumer culture are presented throughout the novel. None of the characters likes to develop passion for true knowledge. They no longer like to take the trouble to know the reality. Individuals are taken as fragile units. In the lives of Gladney, Babette, Bee and other children of Murray, digitally produced reality count a lot. To come out of his barren mercantile practices like digital mode of communication and encoding business codes, the main character develops fantasies. As a qualitative research, the researcher has used library and internet as the sources for it. The concept of postmodernism along with cyber culture has been used as the tool to interpret and analyze the fiction

Me and my virtual presence: an autoethnographic vignette

Internet has allowed for a certain flexibility regarding the limits of connection, communication, and collaboration between people. It is, however, necessary that we maintain a critical stance towards its affordances so that we can continue to improve upon them. In this autoethnographic vignette, I will try to share my experience as a virtual, ‘disembodied other’ in a collaborative learning environment, focusing mainly on the limitations and problems I encountered during the process. This experience pertains to the project hub2001: An Internet Odyssey, which was developed for the course Cyber Cultures: Psychosocial implicationsoffered by the Psychology Department of Panteion University, Athens, Greece in the spring semester of the 2015-16 academic year. During this project, I participated virtually in the weekly lectures and meetings between the tutor and his assistants, and reflected, both individually and at the group level, on the course process. One of these reflections is further explored in this paper, aiming to present an experience which, although personal, can contribute in our understanding of the lived reality of the increasingly more common remote collaboration and virtual presence, especially in academic environments.

MEME DI ERA DIGITAL DAN BUDAYA SIBER

Abstract The rapid dissemination of meme cannot be separated from the development of communication technology. Memes that circulate are not just a joke but a reflection of offline reality and presented with interesting visuals. Image processing technology encourages people to be more creative. This study focuses on the process of consumption, production, and distribution of internet memes and the formation of cyberculture because of these process by using the literature study method. In consuming this internet meme commodity, a "work of consumption" process is needed. When the audience consumes information, it also has a "work of production" .The effort when the audience consumes and reproduces these information is called "work in progress". In consuming internet memes, there are several underlying motives, namely entetainment motives, self-expression motives, socializing and community building mottives, and informativeness Motives. Today Meme internet develops into a new communication style as a form of participatory digital culture. Cyber culture that is formed is the result of the construction of virtual identities that combine to form a new cultureKeyword : Internet Meme, Digital Era, Cyberculture

HEGEMONYA ETKİSİNDE SİBERPUNK VE DİSTOPİK GERÇEKLİK: GEÇMİŞİN GELECEĞİ OLARAK GÜNÜMÜZ

Human is an entity that can create different living spaces for itself by changing its environment as desired. Like other creatures, can eliminate it by using its existing mind to have different equipment. At the same time, he may lose his blessing by entering the race to rule nature and people. In hegemonic structures, these situations can be seen in the world where quality of life deteriorates as technology develops and in fiction. The bodies of people are equipped with mechatronic implants, the functions of artificial intelligence are developed based on the human brain. A symbiotic relationship occurs between organic and mechatronic structures. It is believed that the person who artificializes himself and his environment meets with fictionalized in the past. Especially since 1970s, the original discoveries of scientists and researchers, the claims of various novel writers about technological developments, create new discussion environments, draw attention to concepts such as digital people, cyber culture, cyberpunk, which are frequently discussed in cinema and literature. The idea that rapidly developing technology will be used to the detriment of humanity and that the future will not be very bright constitutes the content of novels. In this study, the ignorant approaches of focus on power that shape the future; punk culture and “cyberpunk” transformation, which exhibit a protest attitude towards the chaotic structures that technological developments will determine in the future; The dystopic reality of generations that are trying to adapt to every technology and are not questioned will be evaluated. The relationship between will be explained with the examples that hegemony, cyberpunk and reality. With the scientific studies in this research, it is aimed to increase of individual awareness and social consciousness.

Across the Ocean: Historicizing SF Studies in Japan and Beyond

518 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) discussion of “intergroup dialogue,” defined as a “facilitated, face-to-face encounter that aims to foster innovative levels of understanding between two or more identity groups” (109), uses Butler’s writing alongside other texts from contemporary popular culture in a rigorous, multiphase approach to classroom discussion. Indeed, Parker’s chapter offers the most pragmatic (and, arguably, radical) guide to teaching Butler’s science fiction; the appendix of exercises alone is absolutely true to the productive unsettlement generated by Butler’s work. The volume concludes with a section on “The Aesthetics of Afrofuturism” that serves as a valuable recapitulation of a historical literary moment. Here we return to a more familiar interpretation of Butler, circling back to the more literary-critical reception of her work. From models of Black female leadership (as identified by Stanley) to the generic instabilities of a text such as “Bloodchild,” moving through science fiction and historicism to the “liberation politics coupled with critical race theory” (132) that inform Isaiah Lavender’s definition of Afrofuturism, the concept is rendered urgent, timely, and perhaps necessarily expansive in scope. Yet, despite the importance of students becoming cognizant of Afrofuturist aesthetics as they play out “across music, art, film, and other cultural practices” (147), it would have been desirable to see a little more nuance in positioning Octavia E. Butler as an Afrofuturist author. Marisa Parham, for instance, uses the term “astrofuturism” to define the more literary and text-based praxis of Butler, who, indeed, expressed bemusement at being grouped with other contemporary black artists such as Samuel R. Delany (let alone musicians such as George Clinton and Sun Ra). Given that this final subsection is the shortest, containing only three chapters, it might have been more effective to incorporate them into the preceding sections. Stanley’s “Teaching Afrofuturistic Thought Leadership in Butler’s Fiction” would be a fine fit for the “Social Justice” section, for instance, whereas Lavender’s critical reading of Parable of the Sower would be entirely at home in the first subsection on literary approaches. Furthermore, all subsections would have benefited from drawing a little more upon the abundant archival materials held at the Huntington Library which houses Octavia E. Butler’s papers, as well as more fully using some of the interview materials cited in the excellent first section. Butler, in her papers and interviews, had much to say on issues of pedagogy and politics. Nonetheless, this volume presents a wide-ranging and generous framework for teaching the works of Octavia E. Butler in a variety of contexts and educational levels, and I thoroughly recommend it.—Phoenix Alexander, University of Liverpool Across the Ocean: Historicizing SF Studies in Japan and Beyond. Takayuki Tatsumi, ed. Trans-Pacific Cultural Studies. Vol. III: Science Fiction and Cyber Culture. New Delhi: Sage, 2019. 289 pp. $1100 hc. (4-volume set, not sold individually) 519 BOOKS IN REVIEW [For the sake of consistency with Tatsumi’s series, Chinese and Japanese names appear as they would in English, with given name first and surname second. I would like to thank Baryon Tensor-Posadas at the University of Minnesota for his advice on the Japanese titles listed here.] Takayuki Tatsumi’s introduction to this volume argues that “without the existence of Japan, postwar science fiction could not have developed the transpacific imagination. It is true that Japan played the leading role of trans-pacific science fiction” (vii-viii). Global popular culture since at least the 1960s would be vastly different were it not for the circulation of images, tropes, and topoi between and within the United States and Asia, and particularly without Japan’s successful internationalization of all manner of franchisable characters, from the cool to the cute (volume IV is devoted entirely to the topic of “Cool Asia” and is worth finding in your library). While the four-volume series in toto—which also includes “Trans-Pacific Americanism” (vol. I) and “Trans-Pacific Literary Studies” (vol. II)—features a more truly trans-Pacific focus, the introduction to this particular volume and its contents are focused more squarely on Japan and on the influences of the United States during the Cold-War era rather than...

MENGEMBANGKAN TEOLOGI SIBER DI INDONESIA

<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Does the internet change the way of thinking from the people and members of the Church in Indonesia? I give a “yes” answer to this question. This answer was born from the reality that digital technology is not limited as a means or instrument that helps humans to achieve a better life. More than that, the internet has become a space of life that determines and gives meaning to human existence and the existence of the Indonesian Church. The internet also creates a culture called cyber culture. If the internet breeds new logical thinking and culture, and its existence has seized the attention of members of the Catholic Church, so the internet can become locus theologicus. The existence of the internet as a locus of theology is confirmed by the Popes.<br />Seeing this reality, the Indonesian Catholic Church through the theologians need to develop a new theology, namely cyber theology. Through this cyber theology, the members of the Church find that the sophisticated communication technology reflects Christianism which is fundamentally a communicative event.</p><p><br /><strong>Keywords:</strong> Cyber theology, internet, Indonesian Church, cyber culture</p>

Rumors on the Net: A Brackish Suspension of Speech and Hate

The legitimacy of public memory and socially normative standards of civility is questioned through rumors that abound on online social media platforms. On the Net, the proclivity of rumors is particularly prone to acts of bullying and frameworks of hate speech. Legislative attempts to limit rumors operate differently in France and throughout Europe from the United States. This article examines the impact of online rumors, the mob mentality, and the politicization of bullying critics within a cyber culture that operates within the limitations of law.

An Empirical Study Affecting Content Characteristics of Cyber Culture on Acceptance Intention

An Empirical Study Affecting Content Characteristics of Cyber Culture on Acceptance Intention

EU’s Emerging Strategic Cyber Culture(s)

Abstract This paper focuses on the European Union’s collective efforts to address cybercrime and argues that the European Union (consisting of 28 Member States) has more than a single overarching ‘strategic cyber culture’. This is due to the differences in attitudes and experiences of cyber security among Member States that has created fragmentation in the EU’s cyber security institutional system. This paper therefore considers the institutional developments by examining the main ‘carriers’ of EU strategic cyber culture such as the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME), Eurojust, and Europol/EC3, together with the strengths and weaknesses of the EU’s particular approach to cybercrime.

The Development of E-Culture and Differentiation of the Modern Social Sciences and Humanities

The article is devoted to the study of electronic culture as a new phenomenon of the information age, as a special sphere of human activity associated with the creation of digital objects, the simulations of objects of “living” culture, virtual spaces and processes. The concept of “electronic culture” is explained in comparison with relative (but not identical) to it terms, such as cyber culture, Internet culture, online culture, digital culture, etc. The purpose of this study is to identify the internal structure of electronic culture as a system of various information phenomena and processes, to examine the relations between them and their general characteristics as part of a single whole. The electronic culture is reviewed as a system of elements which are in different ways described by researchers in the modern social sciences and humanities. The author systematizes the main methodological approaches to the study of electronic culture and reveals meanings and connotations of the concept of electronic culture in various scientific discourses. The novelty of the study is associated with the modeling the structure of electronic culture from the perspective of existential-axiological analysis, with the identification of its key elements and the relations between them. A new typology of electronic culture objects of various nature is proposed: anthropological, ontological, social, communicative, existential, etc. The research describes various phenomena of information space as a general system, defines the basic concepts of electronic culture, developing in recent decades in the social sciences and humanities.

ANALYSIS OF AUDIENCE RECEPTION ON YOUTUBE TOWARDS ANTI CYBERBULLYING VIDEO CAMPAIGN IN THE CYBER BULLY BY CAMEOPROJECT

Youtube is one of the leading sites to share videos. It also facilitates the video viewers to give comments. The research explores the video campaign entitled Cyber Bully (2016) produced by CameoProject and the authentic responses from the viewers in Youtube. The argument that the anti-cyberbullying video campaign generally creates only from victim’s perspective and how the society should encourage them. As an attempt to give a new perspective, this research shows that the victim of cyberbullying should also change himself in a positive way to contribute and socialize well in the society. Applying the concept of encoding – decoding by Stuart Hall (1993), the three categories such as dominant, negotiated and oppositional representatives can be seen from the responses of the interviewees in negotiated position. The research uses qualitative descriptive methodology; reception analysis and critical discourse analysis to determine the results by using in-depth interview with the selected representatives of three categories from encoding-decoding concept by Stuart Hall. The interviewers were compared by three categories in audience research; structural, behavioural and cultural based on primary data, aims and method. Results indicates the three viewers have the same perception of objective at the end which are to have courageous to being tough and responsible for ourselves and not being intimidated by unfairness or dominant power. All of them agreed that the Cameo Project video has delivered well the message of cyberbullying’s danger to the victims. To conclude, this phenomenon contributes to the cyber cultures in which Youtube is seen as a functional media in order to make meaning of a digital text and negotiate with the constructed cyber bullying by giving responses.

Changing life on the Cyber Culture and Hyper Reality

Oz Bu calismada amacimiz, kulturel yasamin kitle iletisim araclariyla nasil donusume ugradigini gostermek, son teknolojik gelismelerle sosyal medya araclarinin yasamimizda oynadigi rolu arastirmaktir. Ayrica, kitle iletisim araclarinin etkisiyle geleneksel anlamda sanatta yaraticigin kendini nasil tukettigi uzerine bir degerlendirme yapilacaktir. Bugun ulasilan noktada, medyanin buyuk oranda oznenin fikrini etkiledigi; soylemler, imajlar ve semboller uzerinden bilgiyi manipule ettigi ve istenilen bicimde populer bir kultur yarattigi cok iyi bilinmektedir. Modern toplumlarda medya, insanlarin dusuncelerini bicimlendirir, yeniden yapilandirir ve ozellikle bilginin kontrolu araciligiyla sosyal bilinci yeniden uretir. Medya kulturu, tuketim kulturuyle baglantilidir. Buna gore cogu insan, populer kulturun birer tuketicisidir. Medya, demokraside dorduncu goz olarak bilinir ve gercekleri ozgur ve nesnel bir bicimde aktarmasi beklenir. Ortaya ciktigi gunden beri de yasami degistirmek icin guclu bir oryantasyon araci oldugu bilinir. Bu anlamda medya, populer kulturun gelismesinde merkez bir role sahiptir. Dijital cag sayesinde internet, populer kultur uzerinde oldukca onemli bir etkiye sahip olup, sosyal medyanin kullanimi da siber kulturun olusmasini destekler. Siber kultur kelimesi internet teknolojileri uzerinden kulturun uretilmesine ve uygulanmasina isaret eder. Hizli ilerleyen bilgisayar teknolojileri interneti butun kulturel hayatin, iletisim ve sanatin temel referans noktasi yapar. Dijital devrim, kultur ve sanatin donusumunu ortaya cikardi. Bu donusum surecinde, siber alanda, herkes her seyi “bildigini!” iddia etmeye ve kendilerini yaratici aktiviteye sahip birer “sanatci” olarak gormeye basladi. Bu iddialar, gercekte yaratici eylemin hice sayilmasina neden oldu. Oysa gercek yasamda, kimse gercegin ne oldugunu bilmemekte, bu anlamda sanal gerceklerin esiri olmakta ve bu noktada, sanat baglaminda da yaratici eylem degersizlestirilmektedir. Bu durumun bir sonucu olarak ozneler, kimliklerini kaybederler ve bir hiper gerceklik ile karsi karsiya kalirlar. Bu hiper gerceklikte, kimlikler plastiklesir ve bu kimlige sahip olan ozneler “kendi benliklerini kiyafet degistirir gibi duruma gore degistiririm” dusuncesiyle hareket ederler. Fransiz filozof Jean Baudrillard, Simulakrlar ve Simulasyon adli eserinde; gercege olan bakisimizi kaybettigimizi, hiper gercekligin gercek olarak sunuldugunu, bu anlamda gercegin oldugunu, zaten asla var olmamis oldugunu ileri surer.

Re (De) generating Polemics of Gandhian Sense of Sexuality in the LifeNarration of Jad Adams’ Gandhi: Naked Ambitions

This paper proposes to examine the complexities involved explicitly in the Gandhian sense of sexuality and brahmacharya as rendered in Jad Adam’s Gandhi: Naked Ambition. Attempt to revamp or comprehend Gandhi’s notions on sex and celibacy would invite ambivalent thought process for recognizing the purpose of it. Life- writers of Gandhi have placed this issue philosophically sensational and morally controversial subject at several levels of interpretations. Since the sexual morality fluctuates from one cultural pattern to another, it would be an intricate social task to design an acceptable method for generalizing the very essence of sex and celibacy unequivocally. Jad Adams has critically focused on the views of Gandhi’s celibacy and brahmacharya, and he also severely blasted the image of Gandhi in the name of bramacharya and sexuality with his judgment and understanding. Though, he has criticized this conviction of Gandhi, many Gandhian admirers have endeavored to philosophize it by comparing it to the views and practices of well-known mystic personalities. The paper also discusses the possibilities for an alternative sexuality wrapped with moral sensibility of thought and deed in the contemporary cultural praxis. The practice of brahmacharya and celibacy with the medium of truth and non-violence propagated by Gandhi is taken for a serious discussion, and critiqued the position of Jad Adam’s with suitable justification. Gandhian conviction of brahmacharya and sexuality are complex cultural phenomena to be practiced in an ordinary life, but a slice of an idea from his thought could be used today for eradicating few social menaces. The relevance of Gandhian sense of sexuality and celibacy in the contemporary age of cyber culture has also been scrutinized.

China’s Strategy for International Cooperation on Cyberspace

1. On 1 March 2017, the Chinese government released a document entitled “International Strategy of Cooperation on Cyberspace” (ISCC).1 The ISCC comprehensively analyzes opportunities and challenges in cyberspace, advocates “peace, sovereignty, shared governance, and shared benefits” as the basic principles of international exchange and cooperation in cyberspace, establishes six strategic goals, namely, safeguarding sovereignty and security, developing a system of international rules, promoting fair internet governance, protecting legitimate rights and interests of citizens, promoting cooperation on digital economy, and building platforms for cyber culture exchange. Accordingly, nine specific plans of action to promote international cooperation in cyberspace were formulated. 2. This is the first time for China to release an international strategy on cyber issues. Its purpose is to implement the thoughts of President XI Jinping on establishing a community of shared future in cyberspace, putting forward China’s proposal on international cooperation on cyberspace governance, and contributing China’s efforts to solving certain difficult problems concerning global cyberspace governance. The ISCC is thus a strategic document of significance that will guide China with regard to international cooperation on cyberspace governance.

Cyber dating abuse in affective and sexual relationships: a literature review.

Cyber culture with its related e-commerce, expanded since the 2000s through the advent of social network platforms, incites participants to engage in hyper-exposure and spectacularization of their private lives, with inherent consequences for personal image and privacy, publicizing private matters (especially those pertaining to sexuality and corporality) in the digital media. This raises the need to understand how the phenomenon of cyber dating abuse in affective and sexual relationships is conceptualized and characterized in scientific studies, which health problems are associated with it, and which social technologies are suggested for intervention. This form of abuse is a new expression of intimate partner violence that involves, among other practices, posting embarrassing photos and videos and intimate messages without prior consent, with the purpose of humiliating and defaming the person. The current study is an integrative systematic review, including 35 articles, with a predominance of studies in the United States (22). Types of cyber dating abuse range from direct aggression to stalking. Despite the high prevalence, especially among adolescents and youth, the literature highlights that this type of cyber abuse is often taken for granted. The suggested interventions are mostly for prevention and awareness-raising concerning relationship abuse, action by school counselors, and family orientation. The high reciprocity of cyber dating abuse between males and females indicates that future studies should attempt to elucidate how the dynamics of gender violence are reproduced or subverted by it.

Research on Features of Chatroom Netspeak From a Stylistic View

With the development and popularization of Internet, the appearance of computer mediated communication (CMC) has generated a new variety of language—netspeak, which received a wide publicity in modern linguistics. This paper focuses on the features of netspeak. Firstly, it gives an introduction of its background. Secondly, it discusses its features by employing a lot of examples from English and Chinese. In this part, this paper makes the analysis from the view of stylistics, focusing on phonological, lexical, syntactical and discoursal aspects. Special mention is given here to some differences and similarities found in English netspeak and Chinese netspeak. Thirdly, the great influence of netspeak on written language is involved, which reflects in morphology, meaning, grammar and the degree of politeness. Finally, a conclusion of the features of netspeak is given as well as a reasonable anticipation of its tendency. Lacking in the knowledge of the stylistic features of netspeak, chitchat on line will result in failure in communication. Therefore, this paper, through the systematic analysis on netspeak, aims at revealing its distinctive features and getting netizens to communicate better. As the cyber culture is evolving, netspeak is also changing, which will generate more new features. The study on netspeak needs further analysis and it is never ended.

A Tentative Study on Cyber language

The rapid development of the Internet has brought a new world that is quick, convenient, and colorful to the current globe. It has also created a new culture, namely, cyber culture, which is now deeply influencing people’s life style and changing their concept as well. A great number of people communicate frequently in this virtual world with a new form of language, which is defined as cyber language in this thesis. In recent years, disputes on cyber language take shape with both positive and negative attitude. This paper focuses on the classification and causes of cyber language.