Netizen vs Cybercowboy - What's the difference?
netizen | cybercowboy | Synonyms |
(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:
(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
* 2002 , Amanda Fernbach, Fantasies of fetishism: from decadence to the post-human
* 2003 , Frederick Buell, From apocalypse to way of life: environmental crisis in the American century
(informal) An Internet user.
* 1995 , Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson, Carrie Mae Weems, Constructing masculinity
* 2001 , Jim Sterne, World Wide Web marketing
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)- 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)- ...from the voyeur and beau, through the private dick and the hobo to the cybercowboy and the cyborg.
- 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...
- ...ruthlessly competitive with each other, these corporations hire cybercowboys like Case to do this risky work for them.
- ...shares not a little with libertarian cybercowboys of the technosphere like John Barlow and Mitch Kapor...
- Within the week he upgraded his PC, got a modem, downloaded Netscape, and became a cybercowboy .