An Analysis Of Cyberculture Value

Culture can mean a state and process in which man improves and perfects himself. Through his purposeful activities of creating the culture world, man has cast all his hopes and ideals into certain social culture system. Meanwhile, the culture world created by man reacts upon man and constantly remolds man himself through the function of its own rules and laws. In man's specific cultural life, specific culture patterns transform and build man and the character, psychology, behavior and thought pattern of people in different countries, races and areas and represent the specific culture value in that specific times. It is in this value-creating and value-created process that man advances towards perfection and freedom.Cyberculture is an entirely new state of culture formed on the basis of cyber technology, bearing the contradictory characteristics of notable technology, existent virtuality, communicative interaction, openness and non-centering, extensive embracement and inequality. This culture produces much negative affect when it furnishes people with the opportunity and space to create and develop in cyber times. In order to understand syberculture itself, grasp its essence, control the direction of its development, make the best of its advantages and avoid its disadvantages, seek the right way and mechanism for its development, promote its development and thus, meet people's culture demanding, it is essential that the issue be explored and analyzed so that people can judge, choose and standardize the value consciousness and the value system in cyber times to promote the progress of the society and the free development of man.The thesis, which applies basic value theory to discuss five sections respectively — Generation of cyberculture, Consciousness of Cyberculture Value, Existence of Cyberculture Value, Realization of Cyberculture Value and Outlook of Cynerculture Value, provides a detailed analysis of the issue how human beings, in the culture system featuring cyber technology, keep fingers on the pulse of value system and pursue their own freedom and liberation.