Objective: this article of reflection seeks to dissertate around the incidence, scope, challenges and obstacles that the use of the Internet is conducive to the exercise of democracy. Methodology: from an interpretive exercise of recent literature on the Internet, cyberculture, social movements and democracy, it is stated that these have a dialectical character; That is, they are a place of building power and counterpower. Finding: for some actors like the States and Internet Corporations in a space of manipulation, control and surveillance of citizens; but, for politically active individuals, for social organizations and social movements translates into a new space for interaction, sharing, denounce, cooperate and organize around values or an ideal of democracy. Conclusion: the communicative and deliberative characteristics of the use of the Internet have led to changes in the organizational forms and strategies of collective action of the different social actors, Complicating the democratic exercise and giving it a potential for social transformation.