ABSTRACT
When asked to define cyberspace, most people will probably envisage a personal computer connected to the Internet. Important as both these technologies are to our concept of cyberspace, it is clear that such elements constitute only a very small part of the wider political, social, economic, cultural and financial networks that constitute what we can call cyberspace. Cyberspace is not merely hardware, but a series of symbolic definitions, or ‘tropes’ as David Bell (2001) refers to them, that constitute a network of ideas as much as the communication of bits.
