Russian Cyberculture
Russian cyberculture. Does it exist? How does cyberculture develop in a country, which was isolated from the west for the entire cold war era? Mother Russia has been on the ropes lately. Still having the Soviet habit to insulate its people from the "evil West", the Russian government was very careful in letting Internet technology in to the territory of its Empire. There are still many people in Russia who have no skills in Internet usage. Those people include the young as well as the older generations. Most Russians still have the wrong idea about computers. This was imposed by a Soviet education system which forced people to study first versions of boring programming languages. These people assume that computers are as complicated as Math. Specialized magazines promote that opinion using difficult terminology in their articles to describe simple things. The author of an article says: "Internet is a magic and interesting device, simple as a telephone, but surrounded with myths and stereotypes. Internet is like a monster sitting on the golden treasure. Non-users are like a crowd of people standing near the monster's cave and afraid of going in without a guide. There are also guardians who are sitting in front of the cave and
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Approximate Word count = 1516
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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