Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Observatorio(OBS*)
Journal, which is a special issue on the 'World Internet Project', is now
available online.
Observatorio(OBS*) Journal has recently celebrated its 1st year online.
After having published 5 issues and 74 papers, (OBS*) achieved more than
25,000 downloads, making it one of the most successful journals in terms of
academic reach in communication studies.
OberCom, Observatory for the Media, is one of Portugalâ??s premier centres
on media research. Its peer-review journal Observatorio(OBS*) is an online,
multimedia, open access, academic character publication. It is an
interdisciplinary online journal which, although focused in communication,
is opened to the contributions of other subjects which claim themselves as
part of the Communication Studiesâ?? areas, from academia to the
business-related world.
Observatorio (OBS*) journal is a publication with international character,
which accepts and publishes texts written in Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan,
Galician, Italian, French and English.
OberCom also publishes a monthly Newsletter in English. You are welcome to
submit news of interest to the international research community to
(obercom /at/ obercom.pt) .More information about the centre and its publications
is available at http://www.obercom.pt/en
We hope you will find this project of interest to your research activity
and that, in a near future, we will be able to count with you work among
the authors published at Observatorio (OBS*) journal.
Gustavo Cardoso and Rita Espanha
Editors
Articles
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Special Issue Editorial - World Internet Project
Jeffrey Cole
Portugal in Transition to the Network Society. A Generational Divide
through the Lenses of the Internet
Gustavo Cardoso
Uses and Gratifications of Online Communities in Japan
Kenichi Ishii
Attributes of Participation in Online Communities among Czech Internet
Users
Václav ?tÄ?tka, David ?mahel
New Screens and Young People: Crossing Times and Boundaries what roles do
they play in their everyday life
André H. Caron
Internet and Health Contents
Rita Espanha
A Longitudinal Examination of Internet Diffusion and Adopter Categories
Robert J. Lunn, Michael W. Suman
Consumer Involvement in Organizations in the â??Organization as
Communicationâ?? Perspective: a Multidisciplinary Research Agenda
Andreina Mandelli
Internet Use and Opinion Formation in Countries with Different ICT Contexts
Ellen Helsper
Internet in Singapore: Findings from a National Survey
Alfred Choi
Uso de Internet, Medios de Comunicación, Expectativas PolÃticas y
Generación de Contenidos Online: Resultados del Proyecto WIP Chile
2003-2006
Sergio Jose Godoy
Broadband and the â??Creative Internetâ??: Australians as consumers and
producers of cultural content online
Scott Ewing, Julian Thomas
The Role of Internet in a Changing Mediascape: Competitor or Complement?
Olle Findahl
Exploring Trust on Internet: The Spanish Case
Nicolás Garrido, Adriana Marina
The Diffusion of Information and Communications Technologies: Objective and
Subjective Obstacles
Anna Galácz, Tibor Dessewffy, Zsófia Rét
Measuring Digital Divide: The Exploration in Macau
Jianbin Jin, Angus Weng Hin Cheong
The Young and the Internet: Revolution at Home. When the household becomes
the foundation of socio-cultural change
Carlos Tabernero, Jordi Sánchez-Navarro, Imma Tubella
The Effect of Internet Usage on Interpersonal Relationships: A Case Study
Susan Bastani, Maryam Fazel-Zarandi
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