Network convergence: the new frontier to understand the cibercitzenship and online journalism

Abstract

Although the constitution of the internet may seem a subject already well exploited by cyber social researches, the matter, however, emerges and manifests itself as a vast territory to generate applied research on social sciences and, in particular, communication – which main role is the digital journalism. It is intended to sharpen the key variables that help in understanding the hypermedia phenomena presents on the web. As a previously presented in other articles of my own authorship, such variables are categorized as convergence networks in which, in actuality, totaling up to six, which are: networks of symbols (signs), languages, nations, communities, markets and machines, and in this article, have shown important to understand the on-line citizenship, now perceived not only as a result of a fragmented system, but itself.