If you assume or believe that cyberspace is the realm of the individual, then cyberpower revolves around certain capacities individuals gain in cyberspace. Politics and culture then result from those capacities. Cyberspatial cultures based on the individual are fundamentally structured by the three revolving powers of identity fluidity, renovated hierarchies and informational space. The visible or dominant politics of cyberspace also emerge from these powers, placing access to cyberspace and the maintenance of powers in cyberspace at the core of cyberpolitical conflict. Cyberspace is the land of empowerment of individuals, of reinventing identities out of thought.
Many people report a transformation, often slow, in their perception of online life.
With stable online identities, in whatever forum they exist, people begin to have ongoing conversations, to meet the same people and learn their peculiarities. The particular rules of different corners of cyberspace become clear and normal. But then the individual is no longer the bedrock or final cause of all life, for communities have emerged. The transformation is not magical but sociological. Even communities that begin by assuming the sovereign individual is primary soon come to realise that collective responsibilities and rules appear, created by many and over which no one person has control.