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club events, collaborative sessions of broadcasting and making music. The greatest difference is the field of activity in case of the local and the translocal creative networks. The local creative communities (at least in the case of Latvia) are characterized by greater interdisciplinarity – they focus not only on electronic media and digital networks but also on the synthesis of multiple fields, for example, poetry and multimedia, the new theatre, contemporary art, club culture and, of course, Internet and electronic art. Comparing the creative networks of E-Lab with today’s social networks, one may conclude that the possibility to be able to work in the network in a simpler manner, is sufficient for ‘socializing’, for representing oneself (in a manner of ‘here I am’), for communicating in a faster and more convenient way, for creating personal social networks and so on, but it does not provide enough motivation for the process of establishing and developing new creative communities. Due to the fact that today social networks in Latvia are a thriving phenomenon and the number of people registered on draugiem.lv is greater than the total number of residents in Latvia and because the ‘emptiness’ in the culture is not there anymore, today the ‘alternative zones’ are hidden deep down underground, subcultures are more secluded and self-organized activities of the new generation are considerably less visible than during the 1990s.