摘要：THEdevelopment of new media, particularly the internet, has brought tothe spot light the question regarding the relation between community andmediation. Familiar topics such as "virtual communities", "relation betweenthe local and the global", "identities", "community journalism" or "proximityjournalism" proceed, more or less directely, from that same question.However, the way the question is nowadays again placed, resembles, inmany ways, the manner in which, during the late XIXth century, FerdinandT.nnies theorized about the concepts of "community" (Gemeinschaft) and"society" (Gesellschaft) as forms of social relation characteristic of pre-moder-nity and modernity; and Gabriel Tarde about the role of the press in the emer-gence of the new form of sociability represented by "audiences", so distantfrom the "crowds" of the past
