Cyberspace and the virtualization of geographic analysis categories: a proposal on the definition of cyberregion and its interscalarity

Abstract

The cyberspace is a topic with few investigations in Brazil, mainly in Geography, which should expand its discussions in the face of the transformations of society interconnected by networks. In the globalized world, capitalist society is increasingly inserted into cyberspace by its social, economic, political, religious, cultural dynamics, etc. The internet brought many benefits, such as prompt access to information and knowledge, offering a new form of entertainment and relationships, but also presents conflicts, violence and prejudice. Geography must provide theoretical, methodological and axiological tools that allow students to interpret social relations in virtuality and that provide conceptual, procedural and attitudinal bases that contribute to the formation of digital citizenship. This article is presented as one of the reflections constructed in the PhD thesis in Geography, defended in 2024, which positioned geographic science with its categories of analysis in relation to cyberspace and its virtualization process, elaborating a specific definition of what was analyzed by cyberregion, guided by an interscalarity, as exemplified by the contemporary phenomenon of chans.