“Reading” Cybercultures comes from a professor that teaches at the University of Hyderabad in Hyderabad, India. This Professor’s name is Pramod K. Nayar who teaches a lot of writing classes at the University. In this reading, Nayar talks about how people are communicating through a web based world. In this reading, Nayar goes on to give the Encyclopedia of New Media definition of Cybercultures which is “cultures formed in or associated with online social spaces” (Kendall 2007). He then goes on to state that in order to understand cybercultures you must first ubderstand technoculture. Kayar says,
“While cultures determine what forms of technologies develop, these technologies, in turn, shape cultures. Technology, in other words, is not merely an effect or cause of culture but is both: it determines and is determined by the culture in which it develops.”
I agree with what he says because as culture changes so does our tehcnology and forms of communication through the web. But it can go the other way too, where technology can change the culture.
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