Meaning of cyberflânerie | Babel Free

Definitions

The use of the internet as a social hangout.

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Examples

“Cyberflânerie can be seen to represent⟳ ideas that are more specific to the medium as such and thus reach⟳ further in their utopian longing.”

“Still, the fact that Brown’s coming-of-age geekness is facilitated in a substratum of a mainstream ISP (Internet Service Provider) underscores my notion of black cyberflanerie and strategic invisibility.”

“The gleeful escape⟳ from the city encoded in celebrations of cyberflânerie is equally a feature of the hyper-realisation of urban space which largely depends on representations designed for and perpetuated by ICTs.”

“Cyberflânerie and rag-picking come⟳ to mind⟳ in Bleeding Edge (2013), where Maxine Tarnow draws on the figure⟳ of the bag lady, the crazy woman who rescues the broken and the obsolete from complete⟳ destruction, gazing downward instead of upward and scavenging for products cast⟳ out in the street.”

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