cybertarian
cybertarian noun: a member of the cybertariat class.
Noun (1)
cybertarian (plural cybertarians)
- A member of the cybertariat class.
- I've been doing a lot of research particularly in India but in other Asian countries too on, if you like, the new cybertarians who are growing up working in an offshore call centers and software development and so on.2011, Sasha Lilley, quoting Ursula Huws, Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations With Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult, Oakland, C.A.: PM Press, →ISBN, page 177
- Coders allied to cyber workers' rights also play a role, creating tools to aid cybertarians in information sharing and self-organizing. The ingenious Turkopticon, for example, is a web browser plugin that overlays features on the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform, helping workers who do pay-per-task...2021 May 27, Jenna Burrell, Marion Fourcade, “The Society of Algorithms”, in Annual Review of Sociology, volume 47, San Mateo, C.A.: Annual Reviews, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 221
Noun (2)
cybertarian (plural cybertarians)
- Someone who applies libertarian ideology to the Internet; a follower of cybertarianism.
- John Perry Barlow is a "cybertarian," a form of libertarian. In other words, he believes in bottom-up, decentralized solutions to the dilemmas that arise in cyberspace.2002, Terry Halbert, Elaine Ingulli, CyberEthics, Mason, O.H.: West, →ISBN, page 22
- We're in the midst of fevered discussions about communications and security. Cybertarian campaigners want to stop collusion between corporations and governments to intercept citizen chat; attention-grabbing adolescents at Anonymous want to disrupt murderers who dislike mockery of their principal...2015 January 23, Toby Miller, “How to deal with electronic waste? Make it a national security issue”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2024
Forms of cybertarian
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Origin of cybertarian
Blend of cyber- + proletarian.
Blend of cyber- + libertarian.
Words formed from cybertarian
Questions about cybertarian
- What does cybertarian mean?
- Cybertarian means a member of the cybertariat class.
- What part of speech is cybertarian?
- Cybertarian is a noun.
- What is the plural of cybertarian?
- The plural of cybertarian is cybertarians.
Words near cybertarian in the dictionary
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