Noun

(wikipedia cyberspace)

A world of information through the Internet.

(by extension) The internet as a whole.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=However, some have accused cyberspace of provoking a dangerous collapse in the old order of civilised society. The shift in the balance of power online has given rise to a more powerful concern: the rise of the uncivil web.}}

(science fiction) A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.

* {{quote-book

, year = 1984 , first = William , last = Gibson , authorlink = William Gibson , title = Neuromancer , page = 51 , passage = Cyberspace . A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding... }}

Noun

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Prostitution in cyberspace, i.e. cybersex performed for money or other favours.

* 2002 , Al Cooper, Sex and the Internet: a guidebook for clinicians

There have been instances of forced participation by women in Internet-related sexual activities (eg, trading of women for cyberprostitution ).

* 2008 , Michael Cross, Debra Littlejohn Shinder, Scene of the Cybercrime

An interesting law enforcement issue is that of cyberprostitution , which involves trading virtual sex for money.

* 2009 , Andrea Millwood Hargrave, Sonia Livingstone, Harm and Offence in Media Content: A Review of the Evidence

...how women and girls as individuals and as a group are harmed by online harassment, virtual rape, and cyberprostitution .