The definition and visualization of cyberspace are an ambiguity. The creator of cyberspace defined cyberspace properties as being a space and a non-space and to appear as a ‘consensual hallucination’. Most understandings of the Cyberspace tend to begin with a particular physical space centrist viewpoint that applies physical space models and expectations of one space to another (physical space ...

This paper examines implications of the collective cognitive blind spot of national security leaders with regard to confl ict and warfare in and through cyberspace. It argues that the view of cyberspace as a contested domain within a global commons is not suffi cient to address the full range of confl ict therein. It posits that deliberate examination of the ontology and evolution of cyberspace...

This study compares reported romantic relationships of chat room users in cyberspace vs. in face-to-face relationships in everyday contexts (``realspace''). As hypothesized, involvement Ð particularly commitment and seriousness Ð tended to be lower in cyberspace than in realspace romantic relationships, and misrepresentation Ð speci®cally of age and physical attributes Ð tended to be higher in ...

The family is the vital source of peace and comfort, love and intimacy. But the family can also be a place of conflict, difference, gap and distance in terms of values ​​and patterns of behavior between children and parents. Virtual social networks are a new generation of social networking space that at the end of the first decade of the 21st century have changed the ways of communic...

To examine reciprocal relationships between “virtual world”-context cyberspace positive-psychological states (CPSs) and “real world”-context positive-psychological states (PSs), this study conducted a two-wave panel design with about two-semester interval on 251 Taiwan college freshmen and analyzed the data using cross-lagged structural equation modeling. The analytical results show that CPSs h...

As cyberspace becomes an integral part of our daily life, its mastering becomes harder. To help, cyberspace can be represented by resources arranged in a multidimensional space. With geographical maps to exhibit the topology of this virtual space, people can have a better visual understanding. In this paper, methods focusing on the construction of lower dimension representations of this space a...

Cyberspace refers to the virtual world that is wired by high-speed telecommunications networks connecting people, computers and places. In has been well recognized that cyberspace is quite different from the physical world in the sense that traditional concepts of geography, such as 'nearby', 'distance', and 'connectivity', no longer apply. The relationship between cyberspace and the physical s...

In terms of health and healthcare cyberspace and virtual reality can be used differently and for different purposes and consequently create different outcomes. The three main areas which we shall discuss here are: 1) cyberspace as provider of health information and self-help resources, since the anonymity cyberspace provides is particularly important in the highly stigmatized field of psychiatr...

The art of warfare in cyberspace is evolving. Cyberspace, as the newest warfighting domain, requires the tools to synchronize effects from the cyber domain with those of the traditional land, maritime, space, and air domains. Cyberspace can compliment a commander’s theater strategy supporting strategic, operational, and tactical objectives. To be effective, or provide an effect, commanders must...