The virtual transnational community can only be understood if we tackle the difficult question of virtuality, a rather complex entity that intervenes in different ways in social and psychological life. From a symbolic perspective, the dynamics of virtuality is the hard core of the transnational community. A result of the development of technology is the quantitative and qualitative enhancement of the virtual universe. An imagined community is an abstraction symbolically and politically constructed. Members of the transnational communities, especially ideologues, tend to have hyperbolic opinions about their role in the real world.
People now communicate in a decentralized web that covers the planet, dissolving space and time.
Access to that world empowers people to flood the world with information, thereby checking the abuses of the powerful. Non-governmental organizations everywhere praise this potential of liberation. NGOs and other members of this community fail to see, however, that every technological innovation is ambiguous, with the potential for both utopia and dystopia. Perhaps it is a common characteristic of all imagined communities to give the impression that everyone is equal once qualified. But, the Internet is not like a free market, uncontrolled, or responsive only to individual manipulation.