Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, 2021, 11(3), e202108 e-ISSN: 1986-3497 Copyright © 2021 by authors; licensee OJCMT. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Editorial: Discussing Local and Community Media: Positive Experiences and Impacts on Societies Fábio Ribeiro 1,2* 0000-0001-8071-6145 57204005993 Luís Bonixe 3** 0000-0003-1288-7529 57214687319 1 University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Communication and Society Research Centre, PORTUGAL 2 University of Minho (UM), PORTUGAL 3 Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, ICNOVA, PORTUGAL * Corresponding author: fabior@utad.pt ** Corresponding author: luisbonixe@ipportalegre.pt Citation: Ribeiro, F., & Bonixe, L. (2021). Editorial: Discussing Local and Community Media: Positive Experiences and Impacts on Societies. Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, 11(3), e202108. https://doi.org/10.30935/ojcmt/11107 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. As to globally describe the scientific purpose within the following pages, this special issue includes seven articles, written by 12 authors, from Portugal, Brazil, Ireland, England and Spain, reflecting on the above- mentioned perspective, focusing mainly not only in the local radio scope, but also in digital and printed media. Before presenting the general grasp of the scientific outcomes of this issue, a visual approach (Figure 1) clinging on the most represented words by the authors in the abstracts provides insights of the possible approaches in the scientific texts. Figure 1. Visual representation of the most common words in the abstracts. Source: Word Cloud Generator