With the innovation of the internet, a new found sense of community connectivity and social capital is enhanced. Although it is argued that with the introduction of the television families began to enclose themselves indoors and disconnect with the outside world, reeking havoc on the unlimited sociality of public life. Even with the possibility of unlimited choices and freedoms across the Internet many scholars and particularly feminists have expressed their concern regarding the way women are still controlled under the realms of virtual reality, and whether the internet can break away from the original patriarchal (white males – pornography) feelings to include all diversities (women). Cyberfeminists view the internet as a positive innovation for the woman-machine relationship, with the ability to empower women in our male dominated world in which technology once strictly benefitted. Wajcman also reviews the idea of virtual gender through texts by Plant, claiming that cyberfeminism has an optimistic view of the future role of women based on identity, empowerment, agency and pleasure. Wajcman believes there is a tension between a feminine vision of cyberspace and its definition as a privileged space – that is, the metaphor of cyberfeminism articulated as an alternative to the construction of female identities. Further questioning cyberfeminism’s potential to change gender relations in a virtual world.
