I’m not sure if I’m going to translate every single word from the Portuguese version of this blog to here, once it’d be really artificial just to copy posts there and paste them here in another language without considering the cultural background our english readers might have different from the ones in my mother language.
This blog, as I said in the About page, is a blog which focus on the cyberculture subject. I’ve seen many bloggers who write about technology, how this affect in our daily life and many of them are really great, but there’s something else to be written. Indeed, one might say I just didn’t find any place to read about cyberculture probably and I’ll reply: I had. It’s just that I feel like I also have something to say.
Nevertheless, I also feel obligated to at least try and make a brief comment on the cyberculture concept. As I did with the Portuguese version I now summon Wikipedia:
Cyberculture is a wide social and cultural movement closely linked to advanced information science and information technology, their emergence, development and rise to social and cultural prominence between the 1960s and the 1990s. Cyberculture was influenced at its genesis by those early users of the Internet, frequently including the architects of the original project. These individuals were often guided in their actions by the hacker ethic. While early cyberculture was based on a small cultural sample, and its ideals, the modern cyberculture is a much more diverse group of users and the ideals that they espouse.
As a matter of fact cyberculture extends its influence to many people nowadays, and like culture itself, sometimes it’s not even realized by people. Yet, many people like me, or the reader, has at least the idea of the greatness of such concept and contributes with the cyberculture vividly: be it in blogs, fotologs, participating in digital social networks, whatever. The range of this culture though, for me, is much more extensive. There’ll be a time that anything we want related to our lives will be in the Internet (hasn’t this time already arrive?)
Anyway, I can’t explain cyberculture much more or I might be in distress and lose the grip of what I want really to say and what I’m going to write in the next blogs. Nevertheless, I anticipate many of the debates we are going to initiate in here: we’re gonna talk about gaming, trolling, socializing in the web, et cetera. We may be able to have fun I guess, unless someone hack us
If this is to happen, I’m won’t hesitate to be hacked if the hacker is someone I would love to meet sometime in the future:
