Meaning of cyberflânerie | Babel Free

Definitions

The use of the internet as a social hangout.

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“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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