Editorial: Discussing local and community media: Positive experiences and impacts on societies

This special issue of the Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, ambitiously subject to the title “Discussing local and community media: positive experiences and impacts on societies”, tries to emphasize the role of local media (press, radio, television and online) with audiences. Following several perspectives from different geographical contexts, all authors involved in this publication did stress out the relevance of local communication framework for communities, often left excluded from the mainstream media.