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			<title>What is a internet/cyber culture</title>
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<b><font color="#0D0D0D">What is a internet/cyber culture</font></b><br />
  <b><font color="#0D0D0D">Cyber culture</font></b><font color="#0D0D0D"> is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">culture</font></a> that has emerged, or is emerging, from the use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">computer networks</font></a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-mediated_communication" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">communication</font></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_industry#Electronic_entertainment" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">entertainment</font></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_business" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">business</font></a>. It is also the study of various social phenomena associated with the Internet and other new forms of network communication, such as online communities, online multi-player gaming, social media and testing<br />
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  <b><span style="font-family: &amp;quot">Overview</span></b><br />
  <font color="#0D0D0D">Since the boundaries of cyber culture are difficult to define, the term is used flexibly, and its application to specific circumstances can be controversial. It generally refers at least to the cultures of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_communities" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">virtual communities</font></a>, but extends to a wide range of cultural issues relating to &quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">cyber</font></a>-topics&quot;, e.g. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">cybernetics</font></a>, and</font><font color="#0D0D0D"> the perceived or predicted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">cyborgization</font></a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">human body</font></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_society" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">human society</font></a> itself. It can also embrace associated intellectual and cultural movements, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg_theory" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">cyborg theory</font></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">cyberpunk</font></a>. <br />
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<font color="#0D0D0D">The term often incorporates an implicit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foresight_%28futures_studies%29" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">anticipation of the future</font></a> </font><br />
  <font color="#0D0D0D">Cyber culture is a wide social and cultural movement closely linked to advanced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_science" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">information science</font></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">information technology</font></a>, their emergence, development and rise to social and cultural prominence between the 1960s and the 1990s. Cyber culture was influenced at its genesis by those early users of the internet, frequently including the architects of the original project. These individuals were often guided in their actions by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0D0D0D">hacker ethic</font></a>. While early cyber culture was based on a small cultural sample, and its ideals, the modern cyber culture is a much more diverse group of users and the ideals that they espouse.</font><br />
  <b>Manifestations of cyber culture</b><br />
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  <span style="font-family: &amp;quot">Manifestations of Cyber culture include various human interactions mediated by computer networks. They can be activities, pursuits, games, places and metaphors, and include a diverse base of applications. Some are supported by specialized software and others work on commonly accepted web protocols. Examples include but are not limited to:</span><br />
          <ul><li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Blogs</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Social networks</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_games" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Games <br />
</a></span></li>
</ul>         <ul><li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chat" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chat</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Usenet</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bulletin Board Systems</a></span></li>
</ul>         <ul><li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Commerce" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">E-Commerce</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_file_sharing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Peer-to-peer file        sharing</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Virtual worlds</a></span></li>
</ul>         <ul><li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersex" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Cybersex</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Lolcats</a></span></li>
</ul>        <b>Qualities of cyber culture</b><br />
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  <span style="font-family: &amp;quot">That said, there are several qualities that cyber cultures share that make them warrant the prefix “cyber-“. Some of those qualities are that cyber culture:</span><br />
  <ul><li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot">Is a community mediated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_communication_technology" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ICTs</a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot">Is culture “mediated by computer screens.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot">Relies heavily on the notion of information and      knowledge exchange.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot">Depends on the ability to manipulate tools to a degree      not present in other forms of culture (even artisan culture, e.g., a      glass-blowing culture).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot">Allows vastly expanded weak ties and has been      criticized for overly emphasizing the same (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bowling Alone</a> and      other works).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot">Multiplies the number of eyeballs on a given problem,      beyond that which would be possible using traditional means, given      physical, geographic, and temporal constraints.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot">Is a “cognitive and social culture, not a geographic      one.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot">Is “the product of like-minded people finding a common      ‘place’ to interact</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: &amp;quot">Is inherently more &quot;fragile&quot; than traditional      forms of community and culture </span></li>
</ul>  <b>Identity in cyber culture</b><br />
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  <span style="font-family: &amp;quot">Cyber culture, like culture in general, relies on establishing identity and credibility. However, in the absence of direct physical interaction, it could be argued that the process for such establishment is more difficult.</span><br />
  <span style="font-family: &amp;quot">How does cyber culture rely on and establish identity and credibility? This relationship is two way, with identity and credibility being both used to define community in cyberspace and to be created within and by online communities.</span><br />
  <span style="font-family: &amp;quot">In some senses, online credibility is established in much the same way that it is established in the off line world, however, since there are two separate worlds, it is not surprising that there are both differences in the mechanisms found in each and interactions of the markers found in each</span></blockquote>

 
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<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma"><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma">Drupal</span></b><span style="font-family: Tahoma">  a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">free and open source</font></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">content management system</font></a> (CMS) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_framework" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">Content Management framework</font></a> (CMF) written in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">PHP</font></a> and distributed under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GPL" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">GNU General Public License</font></a>. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">t is used as a </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-end" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">back-end</font></span></font></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3"> system for at least 1.5% of all </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_wide_web" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">websites</font></span></font></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3"> worldwide ranging from personal </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">blogs</font></span></font></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3"> to corporate, political, and government sites including </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehouse.gov" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">whitehouse.gov</font></span></font></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3"> and </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data.gov.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">data.gov.uk</font></span></font></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">.It is also used for </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">knowledge management</font></span></font></a><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> and business collaboration </span></font><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">The standard release of Drupal, known as <b>Drupal core</b>, contains basic features common to CMSs. These include user account registration and maintenance, menu management, </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">RSS</font></span></font></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">-feeds, page layout customization, and system administration. The Drupal core installation can be used as a </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brochureware" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">brochure ware</font></span></font></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3"> website, a single- or multi-user </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">blog</font></span></font></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">, an </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">Internet forum</font></span></font></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">, or a community website providing for </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-generated_content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">user-generated content</font></span></font></a><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman">.</span></font><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">Over 7000 (as of November 2010) free community-contributed add-ons, known as <b>contrib modules</b>, are available to alter and extend Drupal's core capabilities and add new features or customize Drupal's behavior and appearance. Because of this plug-in extensibility and modular design, Drupal is sometimes described as a </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_framework" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">content management framework</font></span></font></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">. Drupal is also described as a </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application_framework" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">web application framework</font></span></font></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">, as it meets the generally accepted </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application_framework#Features" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">feature requirements</font></span></font></a><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> for such frameworks.<br />
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</span></font>  </span></b>  Although Drupal offers a sophisticated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">programming interface</font></a> for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration. <br />
  Drupal runs on any <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing_platform" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">computing platform</font></a> that supports both a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">web server</font></a> capable of running PHP (including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">Apache</font></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">IIS</font></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighttpd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">Lighttpd</font></a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">nginx</font></a>) and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">database</font></a> (such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">MySQL</font></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">MariaDB</font></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">PostgreSQL</font></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">SQLite</font></a>, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="windowtext">Microsoft SQL Server</font></a>) to store content and settings. Drupal 6 requires PHP 4.4.0+ while Drupal 7 requires PHP 5.2 or higher.</blockquote>

 
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