Virtual Community, social network and media environment of Canary Isands regional digital newspapers
The impact of the new communication and information technologies has favoured the creation of multiple local newspaper websites in the Canary Islands, thus making the regional press emerge as an alternative on the rise. This tendency affects significantly both traditional and new editions of the dif...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad de La Laguna
2008-01-01
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| Series: | Revista Latina de Comunicación Social |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ull.es/publicaciones/latina/_2008/20_27_virtual/Francisco_Mateos.html |
| Summary: | The impact of the new communication and information technologies has favoured the creation of multiple local newspaper websites in the Canary Islands, thus making the regional press emerge as an alternative on the rise. This tendency affects significantly both traditional and new editions of the different regional and local newspapers from the Canaries and motivates a different distribution, positioning and development within the local media environment in which these media share a novel dimension of communication with a specific virtual community and social network within the World Wide Web. |
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| ISSN: | 1138-5820 |