West Sumatra as the basis of religious movements in Indonesia is fertile ground for birth radical understanding. This also has an impact on survival Minangkabau people who prioritize tolerance their daily lives. One local wisdom and included ranks government Bundo Kanduang. According to Kanduang, this radicalism understanding very contrary doctrine which bases Adat Basandi Syara’ Syarak Kitabul...

This paper focuses on one single aspect of the relationship between cyberspace and architecture: the domain of information visualisation. This field embraces many different approaches to represent data-derived information in a three-dimensional way. One of them, Benediktine Cyberspace, is discussed in more detail. First, the role and importance of visualisation techniques are situated within th...

The basic problem of cyberspace architecture is to prescribe a spatiallycoherent internetworked infrastructure capable of delivering a real-time environment, with appropriate fidelity, to a large number of participants. We use the ARPA Domain-Specific Software Architecture process to develop an architecture for cyberspace. The process begins with the development of a Domain Model. Reference Req...

ing at the recent development of Web dances and Internet performances, it appears to me that a dance community has evolved in cyberspace. The emergence of the World Wide Web has led to an upsurge of creative exploration by dance artists as they discover, in ever-increasing numbers, this new technology’s potential. The pervasiveness of information and communications technologies has produced new...

Introduction Deconstructing Maps Deconstructing Maps of the Net A True Map of Cyberspace? Conclusion References About the Authors

It has been stated that information is almost impossible to control. Especially in a society which has become heavily networked. If this statement is true, it must have consequences for the position of system administrators (sysadmins) and bulletin board system operators (sysops). Will they be liable for (il)legal activities on their systems? Will they play an important role in the disseminatio...

The Internet has revolutionized communication on a global level while creating a medium for stalking. Cyberstalking has emerged as a new form of stalking behavior. While 10 states have passed laws against electronic harassment, there has been great debate about whether electronic stalking constitutes criminal behavior or whether a perpetrator is entitled First Amendment protection. In the psych...

In der Informationsgesellschaft nehmen auch in Deutschland aggressive und kriminelle Handlungen (Computermißbrauch) ausweislich der jährlichen Kriminalstatistik [BMI02] zu. Weniger Bedeutung wird in Deutschland bisher politisch–motivierten Aktionen beigemessen. Weltweit werden klassische Verfahren wie ziviler Ungehorsam, innere Unruhen und Bürgerkrieg zunehmend durch IT–gestützte Verfahren ergä...

Religion and transhumanism are often regarded as competing or even opposing worldviews. European media philosophers tend to identify common elements in both systems which depend on the metaphysical reception of ideas related to the body and cyberspace. The posthuman aim of a virtual and immortal existence inside the storage of a computer seems to be a continuation or a revivification of the anc...