Christian Kirtchev

To accomplish this, the following steps will be made:

to give a concept about the net culture and its environment on the whole;

to reveal pluses and minuses of it, in comparison with the human culture;

to examine the ideas and opinions discussed by the people who research this topic, and

to make an analysis of the theoretical problems existed in the subject matter.

The methods of carrying out the research are:

broaden our understanding of other cultures as well as of the culture we belong to;

explanation on the wide perspectives of eliminating many barriers with the new young developing cultures arrival.

Rhizome

A Polish sociologist Jan Sсhepanski writes:

Of course, all the cultures want to be free and independent. Network liberalism is some kind of social, political, economic and ethical implication of those basic, ontological principles of the system of the global network which have been characterized above as rhizomorphic.

Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live. We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before (John Perry Barlow 1).

Cyberculture is open enough. More precisely, it can be open for those who are ready to make some efforts for studying bases of its existence and overcoming of barriers. The authority of the network person is defined by collective interest and by obtained recognition of other users.

I want to finish with the words of the greatest romantic of before-network epoch of XX century, Antoine de Sent-Exupery. He wrote, “The real unique luxury - is a luxury of human intercourse”.

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