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CYBERNAUTE PUNK [1 record]

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Record 1 2004-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

Highly computer-literate young people who believe that technology should be used to erase information barriers placed by those in elite positions of wealth and power. Free and open on-line music services are their way of creating a separate space where no one has an advantage over another, and having fun, not making money, is the bottom line.

OBS

Also, a genre of science fiction that appeared in the mid-to-late '80s and combined a bleak, noirish view of the future with a fetishization of technology and human-computer interaction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
OBS

punk : jeune contestataire qui affiche divers signes extérieurs de provocation par dérision envers l'ordre social. Des punks. La mode punk.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
Key term(s)
  • ciberpunk
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