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It has now entered into common speech on and off the Internet,
as shorthand for the conception of computer networks as a
virtual space. Instead of the human-parts metaphors
(brains, memories etc.) that were basically used to
describe the first appearance of computers, the
literary term cyberspace is used as a virtual place-metaphor
to describe and understand the function of ICTs networks..........
It is real virtuality, and not virtual reality,
because when our symbolic environment is, by and
large, structured in this inclusive, flexible,
diversified hypertext, in which we navigate every day,
the virtuality of this text is in fact our reality,
the symbols from which we live and communicate.
(Castells, 1997:10-11).
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