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 Portugal’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 Studies’ 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@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