Abstract

CORONADO, Gabriela  and  HODGE, Bob. Notes about the Relation between Virtual Culture and Mexican Culture in the Internet. Desacatos [online]. 2001, n.8, pp.61-77. ISSN 2448-5144.

Increased dissemination of meanings stemming from the different cultures which circulate in the new global communication media has brought about a transformation of contemporary cultures, which can no longer be understood isolated from the effect of exchange of multiple cultural meanings. Growing access to global communication media, the Internet, and its possibilities is enabling new forms of production and interaction as well as novel creative cultural responses. The article makes an initial reflection on the state of the interaction between the so called virtual culture and the Mexican one. The vertiginous cultural exchange of local and global meanings is giving rise to manifestations which go beyond the limits of cyberspace and which are developing simultaneously as Mexican and global.