Capital social y participación ciudadana en los medios. El caso de El Salto como televisión comunitaria por internet en España

Abstract

the spanish community televisions have extensive backgrounds (TeleK, Cardedeu TV) and in recent years researchs on the Third Sector has proliferated because of the most recent social movements (15M), but research aimed paradigmatic cases of Spanish community televisions in internet is scarce don’t matter they are representative of the social capital of television that has been built thanks to citizen participation. “El Salto” borned in the framework of a network of collaboration between different Spanish community media, has origins in the relationship with its neithborhood community. In the face of the new digital scenario, it is worth reflecting on whether we are faced with an alternative model of internet television, led by citizen initiatives, which faces the traditional communication model and proposes a new relationship in the media-citizen binomial.