Internet Culture

Overview of Internet Culture in relation to cyber crime: [1]Cyber culture is associated with social and cultural movements for the advancing of computer and information sciences. It was influenced in the beginning by early Internet users, frequently the inventors and creators of the computer networking technologies. Cyber culture is manifested in many ways including blogs, social networks, online games (especially MMORPGs), chat and messaging programs, bulletin board systems, peer-to-peer networks and virtual worlds in which people may create and assume the identity of avatars (i.e., fictional digital characters).

Youth who now use the Internet to engage in such activities exemplify and, whether they know it or not, are helping to define, perpetuate growth, and shape cyber cultural norms. Indeed, the so-called digital youth culture is a subset of cyber culture in that it relies heavily on social networks and other forms of communications by and among youth via IT devices. The ”old guard” who invented the Internet and related technologies, along with people who may still ascribe to the original ”Hacker Ethic,” are steadily being outnumbered by newer generations of Internet users who may not know about or even care about such things. For people who have never known a world without computers, the Internet, and theWorld Wide Web, such things may be of historical interest, but they are not amazed—they simply adapt new IT as it becomes increasingly available, interoperable, and affordable. For many people, their lives now revolve around using the Internet. To the extent this is true for individuals and groups of people, they are likely influenced by cyber culture.

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1. By Neel Sampat

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Internet Culture

Internet Culture