cybercowboy
English
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editcybercowboy (plural cybercowboys)
- (science fiction) A character who carries out contract work, especially of a legally dubious nature, in cyberspace.
- 2000, Cutting Edge, Digital desires: language, identity and new technologies:
- ...from the voyeur and beau, through the private dick and the hobo to the cybercowboy and the cyborg.
- 2002, Amanda Fernbach, Fantasies of fetishism: from decadence to the post-human:
- Unlike the cyborg and cybercowboy, technoman Lenny is a sad figure who cannot move on. Despite Faith's rejections he loiters about the club where she works...
- 2003, Frederick Buell, From apocalypse to way of life: environmental crisis in the American century:
- ...ruthlessly competitive with each other, these corporations hire cybercowboys like Case to do this risky work for them.
- (informal) An Internet user.
- 1995, Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson, Carrie Mae Weems, Constructing masculinity:
- ...shares not a little with libertarian cybercowboys of the technosphere like John Barlow and Mitch Kapor...
- 2001, Jim Sterne, World Wide Web marketing:
- Within the week he upgraded his PC, got a modem, downloaded Netscape, and became a cybercowboy.
Synonyms
edit- (Internet user): cybernaut, cybersurfer, netizen