From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner

“Over time, the [Whole Earth] network’s members and forums helped redefine the microcomputer as a ‘personal’ machine, computer communication networks as ‘virtual communities,’ and cyberspace itself as the digital equivalent of the western landscape into which so many communards set forth in the late 1960s, the ‘electronic frontier.’” (6)

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Lev Manovich, Language of New Media

“the most substantial consequence of the computerization of media… the computer layer and the culture layer influence each other. To use another another concept from new media, we can say that they are being composited together. The result of this composite is a new computer culture—a blend of human and compute rmeanings, of traditional ways in which human culture modeled the world and the computer’s own means of representing it.” (46)

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