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Netizen vs Cybercowboy - What's the difference?

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Netizen is a synonym of cybercowboy.


As nouns the difference between netizen and cybercowboy

is that netizen is (computing) a member of the community of internet users while cybercowboy is (science fiction) a character who carries out contract work, especially of a legally dubious nature, in cyberspace.

netizen

English

Noun

(wikipedia netizen) (en noun)
  • (computing) a member of the community of Internet users
  • * 19 Jan 2012 , Johnathan Weisman, Web Rises Up To Deflect Bills Seen as Threat , The New York Times, A1:
  • It appeared by Wednesday evening that Congress would follow Bank of America, Netflix and Verizon as the latest institution to change course in the face of a netizen revolt.

    cybercowboy

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (science fiction) A character who carries out contract work, especially of a legally dubious nature, in cyberspace.
  • * 2000 , Cutting Edge, Digital desires: language, identity and new technologies
  • ...from the voyeur and beau, through the private dick and the hobo to the cybercowboy and the cyborg.
  • * 2002 , Amanda Fernbach, Fantasies of fetishism: from decadence to the post-human
  • Unlike the cyborg and cybercowboy , technoman Lenny is a sad figure who cannot move on. Despite Faith's rejections he loiters about the club where she works...
  • * 2003 , Frederick Buell, From apocalypse to way of life: environmental crisis in the American century
  • ...ruthlessly competitive with each other, these corporations hire cybercowboys like Case to do this risky work for them.
  • (informal) An Internet user.
  • * 1995 , Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson, Carrie Mae Weems, Constructing masculinity
  • ...shares not a little with libertarian cybercowboys of the technosphere like John Barlow and Mitch Kapor...
  • * 2001 , Jim Sterne, World Wide Web marketing
  • Within the week he upgraded his PC, got a modem, downloaded Netscape, and became a cybercowboy .

    Synonyms

    * (Internet user) cybernaut, cybersurfer, netizen