We are witnessing a growing trend, different events to
become socially significant events when attention is directed to
them by generating public energy and developing an active
citizenship, using different technology web tools (websites, blogs,
chat platforms, sites for social networking and other). Internet
becomes a tool for information influence, and skills to participate
in the virtual space are the power by which this space is changing
and the cyberactivism is built and handled.
The aim of the report is to confirm the hypothesis that the
skills to participate in the virtual space are the capital by which
this space can be changed, i.e. they are understood as power to
change the environment. This statement is based on empirical data
from a conducted study. Users who have more online skills and often
use them have acquired and mastered instrumental and information
skills, and have reached to the so-called strategic skills as well.
The latter are essential for full participation in the virtual
space and use of the information from this space to handle
cyberactivism and to mobilize real civil activity.
Key words: information influence, power, virtual
space, cyberactivism, mobilizing civil activity.