The concept of cyberspace can be better understood in light of Pierre Lévy's clarification regarding the virtual ( Lévy , 1996). According to him, the virtual is a new mode of being, whose understanding is facilitated if we consider the process that leads to it: virtualization.

Cyberspace can be considered a virtualization of reality, a migration from the real world to a world of virtual interactions. Deterritorialization, the departure from the "now" and the "this," is one of the royal roads of virtualization, transforming the coercion of time and space into a contingent variable.

Cyberspace by Pierre Lévy

This migration towards a new space-time establishes a virtual social reality that, while seemingly maintaining the same structures as real society, does not necessarily correspond entirely to it, possessing its own codes and structures.

The author states that cyberspace involves profound changes in our way of thinking, of making sense of the world, of relating to one another, and of organizing society; in other words, a new approach to knowledge .

With this, we also note an epistemological shift, in which there is an answer to the subject/object relationship of knowledge. Lévy considers it necessary to inventory all this knowledge, given that modernity suffocates the subject with a rationality that does not consider all human dimensions that are not rational. To transmit knowledge, it is necessary for each person to redo the experience , recreating the world from their own perspectives.

By establishing itself as a new space for sociability, it ends up generating new forms of social relations with their own codes and structures.