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World Netizens' Day
Global recognition of Netizens and netizenship
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.
Global recognition of Netizens and netizenship
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.
Netizens
7/04/09
by: dkovacevic
The Netizens – Michael & Ronda Hauben (1995)
‘My research demonstrated that there were people active as members of the network, which the words net citizen did not precisely represent. The word citizen suggests a geographic or national definition of social membership. The word Netizen reflects the new non-geographically based social membership. …
This definition is used to describe people who care about Usenet
and the bigger Net and work towards building the [system’s] cooperative and collective nature which benefits the larger world. … As more and more people join the online community and contribute towards the nurturing of the Net and toward the development of a great shared social wealth, the ideas and values of Netizenship spread.’
Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben, Netizens, pages x-xi.
from the book "The Class of the New" by Richard Barbrook
www.theclassofthenew.net/
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