Meaning of cyberflaneur | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of cyberflaneur.
   alt-of, alternative
2. A person who idly surfs the Internet.
   Internet

Examples

“The attraction that it exerts on the millions that stroll through its maze of information might be used to reinvigorate our cities. Cyberflaneurs have become captivated with the Internet's ready supply of huge amounts of information...”

“What about the widely heralded hope that cyberspace will be the new street, the piazza in our sprawling cities of connected isolation; that cyberflaneurs will promenade around the Net like Baudelaire taking a stroll around Paris?”

“The implied cyberflaneur is the male adult, because kids have their own link, as do women (and this half of the human race is construed as being interested foremost in family and beauty).”

“The Cyberflâneur: spaces and places on the Internet. Steven Goldate. Art Monthly Australia (Australia), no. 91 (July 1996), p. 15-18.”

“Our youthful cyberflâneurs are not limited by geography in making their connections on the web to the ‘branded web’; as investigative activists, they stray where they may.”

“Intrigued, I set out to discover what happened to the cyberflâneur. While I quickly found other contemporaneous commentators who believed that flânerie would flourish online, the sad state of today’s Internet suggests that they couldn’t have been more wrong. Cyberflâneurs are few and far between, while the very practice of cyberflânerie seems at odds with the world of social media.”

“Enskillment is fundamentally a bodily activity, and while interacting with places online can be something like ‘walking’, as noted above, these cyberflâneurs did not partake in the material or sensorial elements of Lift the Cross, thus missing some of the key elements of enskillment.”

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