Diversity of Journalisms. Proceedings of ECREA/CICOM Conference, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011 41 Maps of the Technologies Available in the Phases of the Communication Process María Ángeles Cabrera González*, Pedro Antonio Rojo Villada**, Ana Isabel Bernal Triviño* * University of Málaga, Spain ** University of Murcia, Spain Abstract Information technologies are a major source of diversity in journalism. Not only because of the different media that arise, but the new dynamics of work and introduction new of requirements imposed on expressive journalistic message (design, writing...) The social context of globalization and new technologies have led to other forms production, distribution and reception of information, three phases which divide the process of journalistic communication. Every day new devices and tools are added to those mentioned above in exponential growth that sometimes appears to cause an excess of choices and opportunities that journalists and the audience don´t know yet. More specifically, the aim of this paper is to categorize new technologies in the journalist work determine the impact they have had on each phase and the role these new technologies play. In ours study we use a descriptive and exploratory approach to structure the new technologies. This list of technologies arises from two perspectives: from the media and from the audience. In the phase of production we examine the impact of information technology in pre-production, production and postproduction; in analyzing the distribution channels -transmission technologies and formats; and finally, at the reception -performing a registration of new portable devices or new media. Introduction Through out history the technology has been in the "center" of the development of the media (Chisholm, 2010:4). Besides the positive considerations of this phenomenon, some authors claim that new technologies have caused a "dramatic transformation" in the media industry (Holt, Perren, 2009:101), and even that technology is responsible, "partly or totally" for a"devaluation of journalistic standards" (Tsui, 2009:54). We agree with Likes (2010:187) arguing that when compared with the changing technology,