RESEARCH NOTES -- On Cyberspace

The concept of cyberspace
If I am to choose the concept "cyberspace" as a starting point of using it in a hypothesis, I would craft it briefly as follow:

For nominal definition, "Let cyberspace mean the environment in which we interact as beings in a digital context". This would allow readers to assume that the words surrounding --- words such as "environment", "interact", "beings" and "digital" --- will be primitive terms understood by those in this postmodernist era.

For denotative definition, it could be crafted as "Cyberspace can mean either of the following; a digital space where text, audio, video and graphic intermingles, or a space wherein human interaction depends on the use of 'clickstream' technology as well as well as the creation, destruction, or recreation of data" And the list of terms which denotatively refer to cyberspace can be extended as it would allow for empirical import as well as fertility because of the availability of primitive terms in it.

For connotative definition which lives and breathes on a combination of primitive and denotative definitions and one which allows especially for the fertility of the concept and attempt to arrive at precise communication so that empirical import can be build in, I would craft the term as such:

"Cyberspace is an abstracted area in which the human self participates in the exchange of social messages in an environment characterized by the complex communicative system in which information in digital form and character is encoded, coded and decoded for a particular purpose".


The above connotative definition though quite long-winded, I think would allow for some degree of precise communication, empirical import, as well as fertility when used in a hypothesis.