Cyberculture: From Plato to The Virtual Universe

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, University of Minho (Institute of Education), course: Educational Technology, language: English, abstract: Cyberculture is contemporaneously understood as a sociocultural way resulting from a symbiotic relationship between society, culture and microelectronic new technologies that emerged with the convergence of telecommunications and computer science in the 70¿s, according Lemos & Cunha (2003). Since then, ¿Cyberculture & Cyberspace¿ has been a prologue of sociability in a network communication in the virtual world, such as the knowledge socialization phenomenon that occurs at a global level in an environment of sharing experiences, information, entertainment, business and collaborative learning. Therefore, this study provides an important contribution to the State of Cyberculture Art, dealing with all aspects prior to the etymology of the word, its related terms and contribution to education. Being based on an empirical descriptive methodology, the study is guided by a literature review and it was developed in the second half of 2012. As a result, we found some circumstances in which cyberculture is present in education by means of multiple languages, multiple communication channels and in distinct temporalities.