Abstract

A large part of global information interchange on the Cyberspace is neither accessible, nor transparent, lying beyond the possibility of public inspection, participation or control. Yet, an emerging culture of “open source software”, “open access to information” and “open data” is rapidly expanding worldwide. Culture, openness and transparency will most likely shape the future of Cyber-Philosophy and Cyberspace itself. The aim, methods, results and discussion of this paper rely upon exploring the nexus of Cyberspace, culture and society from philosophical and sociological perspectives. As a conclusion from such exploration, it can be observed that groups or users of the Cyberspace adopt diverging tactics for fostering transparency or non-transparency on the Internet, and therefore introduce different kinds of views or problems of social and philosophical enquiry, that appear difficult to resolve.