cyburban

English

Etymology

From blend of cyber +‎ suburban, and/or equivalent to cyber- +‎ urban.

Adjective

cyburban (not comparable)

1. Related to online communities or cyberspace.
   • 1996, Pion, Environment and Planning: Society & space:

     Just as early malls commodified public life under the rhetoric of community building, then, the owners of cyburban space could do the same.

   • 2010 April 1, John Trumpbour, “Labor in the information age”, in Labor History:

     Outside these carefully managed and massaged sites, the Internet is becoming a cyburban nightmare pervaded by blog dialogues hijacked by foul-mouthed mischief makers, Facebook ‘friendships’ much shallower than conviviality from an earlier epoch, and mindless multitasking by teens distracted by gaming, texting and sexting in the nonstop video mental universe.

   • 2014, Peter Marolt, David Kurt Herold, China Online: Locating Society in Online Spaces, →ISBN:

     New knowledge, however, hinges on new ways of seeing, and thus on the recognition of the overlooked, silenced, marginal, and on the intentional agency of individual actors that are actively remixing their everyday lives in their cyburban place-worlds.