Cyberpunk Media Spectrum
Overview
This article now functions as a bridge across distinct cyberpunk modalities rather than a catch-all container. Use it to route between megastructure survival, digital-grid myth, media-governed dystopia, insurgent hacker drama, uplift-horror, and signal-body mutation.
Reusable Design Patterns
- Build conflict on control surfaces: identity systems, access rights, broadcast channels, and infrastructure chokepoints.
- Let media be an active battlefield: disinformation, edited memory, and spectacle as governance.
- Split factions into extraction blocs, reform blocs, and opportunists.
- Use layered city maps: physical district, network district, and legal district.
Scenario Seeds
- A corporate emergency channel starts broadcasting events one hour before they happen.
- A resistance cell uses fake identities generated from dead citizens in cold archives.
- A city district can only be entered by proving continuous biometric continuity.