Resumen

CASTRO LUQUE, Ana Lucía  y  ZEPEDA BRACAMONTE, Blanca E.. El café Internet: un espacio real para la virtualidad. Jóvenes y ciberespacio en el noroeste de México. Región y sociedad [online]. 2004, vol.16, n.31, pp.163-208. ISSN 2448-4849.

Among the new information technologies, Internet has become the most influential one, since in a very short time it has managed to disrupt our life. The controversy created by the Web, also known as the sixth continent, hasjust begun, so it is early to have answers to the questions it asks now From this convergence of ideas, this study is aimed at contributing to the analysis that on Internet and its effects has begun in the northwest of the country The approach to the analysis of the new human relations established in the virtual space is made in these new environments: the Internet cafe a real space where navigation becomes democratic. Young people, as the most frequent visitors to the Internet cafe -and perhaps the most attracted ones to this technology-, are the object of analysis through which the new ways of communication and recreation are explored.

Palabras llave : Internet; young people; virtuality; chat; cyberspace; regional development; northwestern Mexico; Internet cafe; users; recreation; cybercafe; internauts; cyberculture.