The document and new technologies: Towards an integrated definition

SCHOLARS SHOULD ANALYZE THE CONSEQUENCES AND REPERCUSSIONS OF PROGRESS ACHIEVED BY HUMANITY IN THEIR RESPECTIVE KNOWLEDGE FIELDS, OBSERVING UP TO WHAT POINT KNOWN AND WELL USED PARADIGMS CAN BE ASSIMILATED. NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES WITHOUTH ADOUBLE HAVE HAD NOTABLE REPERCUSSIONS IN THE EVERYDAY WORK OF THE DOCUMENTALIST; FROM BOTH THE THEORETICAL AND THE PRACTICAL ANGLES. THE PRESENT STUDY ATTEMPTS TO ANALYZE THE RELEVANT INNOVATIONS THAT THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES HAVE INTRODUCED INTO THE CLASSIC CONCEPTION OF THE DOCUMENT TRYING TO INTEGRATE THESE IN A FIRST APPROXIMATION TO THE CLASSIC PARADIGM OF COMMUNICATION AND AT THE SAME TIME INCORPORATING THE REQUIRED MODIFICATIONS.