It is an electronic meeting place for disembodied minds or imaginations. To that extent, it is a world which is constantly being refashioned. The physically confined and politically oppressed can freely communicate with others.
Political democracy is facilitated through Internet debate, polling, and voting.
There is an assumption that there is a space to inhabit, a place to travel to, that allows individuals to transcend the limitations of their own body. One's life on the web need not have anything to do with one's life in the physical world. Although usually refers to a geographically defined area, one could conceive of cyberspace as a different kind of region. Community can be narrowly defined as so as to include persons living in a specific geographical locality, or it can be broadly defined to include those who have similar interests. In fact, the virtual community of the internet was preceded long ago by the scholarly communities of those who shared written texts, but without necessarily ever meeting face to face.