Virtual Community, social network and media environment of Canary Isands regional digital newspapers

• Main Author: Dr. Francisco Manuel Mateos Rodríguez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de La Laguna 2008-01-01
• Series: Revista Latina de Comunicación Social
• Subjects: social networks; information visualization; network representation; network analysis; visualization techniques; information representation; graphic information; mass-media; digital journals; journalism; Canary Islands.
• Online Access: http://www.ull.es/publicaciones/latina/_2008/20_27_virtual/Francisco_Mateos.html

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.