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DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-65-2010-887-114-125-EN

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<meta name="DC.creator.personalName" content="MSc. Lázaro M. Bacallao Pino"/>
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<meta name="DC.Description" lang="en" content=“Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, RLCS, is a scientific journal edited at the University of La Laguna, ULL (Tenerife, Canary Islands) in the Laboratory of Information Technologies and New Analysis of Communication, LATINA according to its initials in Spanish, founded in 1987 by Dr. José Manuel de Pablos Coello, under the protection of special doctorate programmes for Latin American professors. The journal publishes under the main summary almost exclusively research papers written following the formula IMR&DC+B: introduction, methodology, results and discussion plus conclusion, with a updated bibliography: at least 70% of the bibliographic entries must be from the past 10 years and half of them from scientific journals in Spanish and English languages. Reviewers make a double blind peer examination. This is a collective and inter-university project, including many professors and researchers from almost all Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. The journal is the following databases: EBSCO (USA), DOAJ (Lund University, Sweden), Redalyc (Mexico), Dialnet (Spain); and is indexed by the CINDOC-CSIC in DICE, ISOC, RESH, Office of Latin American Education, OEI according to its initials in Spanish; Dulcinea, etc. In Spain the journal is a reference in the Directory of Index of Spanish Periodicals of Social and Communication Sciences, IN-RECS, of the University of Granada, UGR. RLCS occupies the first position in the cumulative index for the periods 2003-2007; 2004-2008 and the year 2008”/>
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<meta name="DC.contributor.referee I" content="RESEARCH ARTICLE 07_2010. Media representations of social networks: a case study. Report. The article is publishable without modifications.Research linked to media representations or discourse analysis should always be of interest for a publication like the Latino Journal of Social Communication (RLCS). Now, it is ideal to offer new approaches. This article stands out due the approach made by the author to address a theoretical reflection from an integral perspective which is quite unusual in the research published on this topic within the field of social communication. I also consider that the focus in the context of “social networks” gives the study an extra perspective for those who consider this topic as a study area. Through Algirdas Julien Greimas’s model, Roberto Franzosi's approach, and Teun A. van Dijk’s approach to discourse analysis, the author analyses the messages created with certain parameters that in turn generate new interpretations of the models of communication. The research shows the interest in new methodological approaches that will strengthen research in the area. The author focused his work on newspapers from Aragon (El Heraldo de Aragón and El Periódico de Aragón) and specifically in the media representations of social networks as a case study; however, it would be more interesting if future studies include a larger sample, additional cases, and comparative analyses. In other words, the article is a starting point of great interest for the field of knowledge.I believe that the publication of a research paper with these characteristics in the RLCS will promote interest in similar work and will make the journal a reference for other researchers working in this context. The approach used by the author guarantees and makes relevant the theoretical framework. The specific cases, the schemes included, the results raised, the conclusions drawn, and the literature clearly prove the benefits of publishing the article. "/>
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<meta name="DC.contributor.referee I" content="RESEARCH ARTICLE 07_2010. Media representations of social networks: a case study. Report. The article is publishable without modifications. Research linked to media representations or discourse analysis should always be of interest for a publication like the Latino Journal of Social Communication (RLCS). Now, it is ideal to offer new approaches. This article stands out due the approach made by the author to address a theoretical reflection from an integral perspective which is quite unusual in the research published on this topic within the field of social communication. I also consider that the focus in the context of “social networks” gives the study an extra perspective for those who consider this topic as a study area. Through Algirdas Julien Greimas’s model, Roberto Franzosi's approach, and Teun A. van Dijk’s approach to discourse analysis, the author analyses the messages created with certain parameters that in turn generate new interpretations of the models of communication. The research shows the interest in new methodological approaches that will strengthen research in the area. The author focused his work on newspapers from Aragon (El Heraldo de Aragón and El Periódico de Aragón) and specifically in the media representations of social networks as a case study; however, it would be more interesting if future studies include a larger sample, additional cases, and comparative analyses. In other words, the article is a starting point of great interest for the field of knowledge. I believe that the publication of a research paper with these characteristics in the RLCS will promote interest in similar work and will make the journal a reference for other researchers working in this context. The approach used by the author guarantees and makes relevant the theoretical framework. The specific cases, the schemes included, the results raised, the conclusions drawn, and the literature clearly prove the benefits of publishing the article."/>
<meta name="DC.contributor.referee II" content="ARTICLE’S REVIEW BY CARLOS FANJUL PEYRÓ. Article 07_2010. El article develops an analysis of the media representation of the social networks in two printed newspapers of regional coverage. The contextualization and actuality of the subject grab the interest of the researcher-reader from the very start. The work contributes an interesting study on the subject, which is solid and methodologically based on models of discourse analysis like Greimas’s and Van Dijk’s, and Franzosi's distinctive approach to narrative analysis. It is a well structured, written, and developed text of great interest in its field of knowledge. It offers relevant findings on the ways traditional media (the printed press to be more precise) face the new communicative realities that emerged out of the technological developments (in this case, the social networks). For all of this, I recommend the article’s publication in the journal.— Dr. Carlos Fanjul Peyro – University Jaume I – Castellón."/>
<meta name="DC.description.abstract" content="Abstract: Social networks are one of the most recent chapters regarding the social impacts of information and communication technologies (ICT), a currently theoretical subject at issue and a permanent topic on the media agenda. From the analysis of two Spanish newspapers -El Heraldo de Aragón and El Periódico de Aragón-, the article analyzes the media representation of social networks on the journalistic discourse of both newspapers. This analysis takes into account the context of the differences between social networks and communication media, as examples of web 1.0 and web 2.0 characteristics and dynamics, respectively. Methodologically, the text explores the possibilities for the analysis of journalistic discourse from the articulation of the Greimas' actantial model, the narrative analysis suggested by Franzosi and the journalistic discourse analysis proposed by Van Dijk. The text proposes a methodological perspective for the journalistic discourse and also describe the mean tendencies on those issues related to social networks that have a remarkable presence in both newspapers, as well as the principal sources of information and the more recurrent actantial roles the different subjects play on the texts analyzed."/>
<meta name="DC.keywords" content="Keywords: Social networks; Media representation; Media system; Web 2.0; Actantial analysis. "/>
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<meta name="DC.TERMS.bibliographicCitation" content="Bacallao Pino, Lázaro M. (2010): "Representaciones mediáticas de las redes sociales: un estudio de casos", en Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 65, páginas 114 a 125. La Laguna (Tenerife): Universidad de La Laguna, recuperado el ___ de ____ de 2_______, de
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