We agree with D. Clark, who notices that we need to use the word cyberspace even in connection with discovery of telegraph. However, we think that the term cyberspace embraces more than just the Internet. Sometimes cyberspace and the Internet are understood as identical places. Cyberspace is constructed using communication technologies, particularly the Internet. Simulations may be visual or acoustic but also more sophisticated, for example tactile, when a special pair of sensory gloves is used. The etymology of this word reveals that it describes a cybernetic space that is not identical with three-dimensional physical space it is a place that merely simulates the real one. The term cyberspace was used for the first time in 1984 by a sci-fi writer, Ford Gibson, in his novel Neuromancer.

In the beginning of the chapter, we want to clarify the concept and basic structure of cyberspace.

Through the phenomenological method, we examine the basic structure of cyberspace (Clark, Ropolyi) and, using a hermeneutic method, examine the differences between communication in cyberspace and old media (Lohisse, Postman, Bystřický). In the chapter we use the phenomenological and hermeneutic method. How do we change the value system in cyberspace communication? What are the possibilities and risks of communication in cyberspace? These are just some of the issues that arise in connection with communication in cyberspace to which we will seek answers.

We then have to ask how our existence is changing under the influence of new technologies. It does not seem to be a mere “tool” of our new way of communication, but a dimension that becomes part of our existence. The Internet is a new communication space, also called cyberspace, in which we not only communicate but also work, learn, buy, have fun, and so on. In the area of information technology, it is mainly the Internet that is the essential part of all modern communication technologies such as smartphones, iPads, and so on. Since the second half of the twentieth century, especially from the 1990s to the present, we have seen significant sociocultural changes that have mostly been influenced by information technology.

A casino odyssey in cyberspace