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This chapter argues that the Web, as well as social networks such as Facebook or Twitter, deserve to be subsumed under the notion of cyberspace since they have a special ontological status with respect to garden-variety technical artifacts. While the latter artifacts belong to two distinct ontological categories, namely, concrete particulars and types, social networks are rather abstract particulars, and this entitles us to cast them as sui generis spaces, namely, cyberspaces.
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Terrone, E. (2022). The Cyberspace Strikes Back: An Ontological Account of Social Networks. In: Terrone, E., Tripodi, V. (eds) Being and Value in Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88793-3_2
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