ABSTRACT
William Gibson, originator of the word ‘cyberspace’, described it as a ‘matrix of bright lattices of unfolding logic [and] a graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system’. Cyberspace provides the medium for the transfer and exchange of information and data, and communication through ‘icons, waypoints and artificial realities’ (Gibson 1984:67). Advanced information and communications technologies have facilitated the construction of this medium. Cyberspace, therefore, can be conceived as a ‘virtual information space’ in which exists the connectivity provided by computers and telecommunication networks to process and transmit the information (Barnatt 1995).
