(OBS*)
Observatorio
Investigação e Saber em Comunicação
http://obs.obercom.pt
Editorial team
January, 2013 review
Editors
• Gustavo Cardoso
(OBS*) Call for Papers
SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 7 (2013) ARE OPEN
ISCTE-IUL and OberCom (.pt)
• Rita Espanha
ISCTE-IUL (.pt)
Associated Editors
• Fausto Colombo
UC del Sacro Cuore (.it)
• Manuel Castells
USC Annenberg (.us)
• Michael Wieviorka
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales (.fr)
• Jianbin Jin
Tsinghua University, Beijing (.cn)
• Angus Cheong
Hong Kong Baptist University (.cn)
• Wu Mei
University of Macau (.cn)
• Manuel Pinto
Observatorio (OBS*) is an international interdisciplinary e-journal that
publishes peer-reviewed articles. It presents empirical and theoretical research
aiming at promoting a better understanding of communication phenomena. The
journal extends its scope from issues related to media and the novel usages of
the Internet, through the challenges surrounding the evolution of new media
platforms, to the dynamics of service innovation in the telecommunications
industry. It welcomes work from academics, practitioners and policy-makers
and is open to contributions coming from all branches of social science inquiry
and the humanities.
Its formula of Open Access ensures maximum of public availability of research
work. Free access papers going through a sound scholarly process of
peer-review present a mix of key advantages to authors and readers such as
high scientific standards and worldwide ready dissemination.
The multilingual approach of (OBS*) is one of its distinctive characteristics. The
e-journal accepts and publishes manuscripts submitted in English, Spanish,
Italian, French, Portuguese, Catalan and Galician.
University of Minho (.pt)
• Eugene Loos
(OBS*) online
• Jonathan Zittrain
“Having now published its twenty-fourth open access issue and a total of 358
papers, (OBS*) achieved more than 552000 downloads up to the month of
January 2013. (OBS*) is already one of the most successful journals in terms of
audience within the broad field of Communication research”.
ASCoR (.nl)
Harvard University (.us)
• Espen Ytreberg
University of Oslo (.no)
• Bernardo Diaz-Nosty
Universidad de Málaga (.es)
• Nico Carpentier
Free University of Brussels (.be)
(OBS*) Worldwide Reach (1/Jan/2012 - 31/Dez/2012)
• François Bar
USC Annenberg (.us)
• Piet Bakker
ASCoR (.nl)
• Hernan Galperín
Universidad de San Andrés (.ar)
• Sergio Godoy
Pontifícia Universidad Católica (.cl)
• Robin Mansell
London School of Economics (.uk)
• Charo Sábada
Universidad de Navarra (.es)
• James Katz
Rutgers University (.us)
• Lucy Kung
MJIBS-MMTC (.se)
• Imma Tubella
UOC (.cat)
• Giuseppe Richeri
Universitá de Lugano (.ch)
• Peppino Ortoleva
Universitá Torino (.it)
Google Analytics
Editorial team
January, 2013 review
Advisory Editors
(OBS*) Worlwide Reach (cont.)
• Fausto Colombo
Since its first issue, (OBS*) published the work of more than 400 authors and
co-authors from 39 countries: Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, The Netherlands,
Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland,
Switzerland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Romania,
Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Sierra Leone, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile,
Canada, United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, India, China, Japan, Singapore,
Australia and New Zealand.
As a testimony of its global identity and multilingual nature, (OBS*) published
papers in English, Spanish, Italian, Galician, French, Brazilian and European
Portuguese.
Top 4 downloading countries: Portugal, Spain, Brazil, United States.
UC del Sacro Cuore (.it)
• Pedro Braumann
ESCS (.pt)
• Enrique Bustamante
Univ. Complutense de Madrid (.es)
• João Caraça
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
(.pt)
• Manuel Damásio
Universidade Lusófona (.pt)
• António Fidalgo
Universidade Beira Interior (.pt)
• Xosé Lopez
(OBS*) Performance data
• Moisés Martins
“The (OBS*) newsletter, the carrier of information regarding every new issue,
reached more than 6500 scholars and professionals in academic institutions,
business firms and public agencies worldwide.
Universidad Santiago Compostela
(.es)
Universidade do Minho (.pt)
• Sandro Mendonça
ISCTE (.pt)
• Enrico Menduni
Universita Roma (.it)
• José Bragança de Miranda
UNL (.pt)
• Pedro Pereira Neto
ESCS-IPL (.pt)
• Robert G. Picard
JIBS-MMTC (.se)
• José Rebelo
ISCTE (.pt)
• Rogério Santos
UCP (.pt)
• Ramón Salaverría
University of Navarra (.es)
Published by: OberCom
Eitorial staff
Tiago Lima
Journal Manager
Patricia Lopes
Editorial Assistant
Diogo Vitorino
IT Manager
Jorge Urbano
Copy Editor
ISSN: 1646-5954
Registo ICS/ERC: 123483/00
OBS-Observatorio is a peer-reviewed,
open-access journal.
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(OBS*) 2012 most read articles
“Socializing and Self-Representation online: Exploring Facebook”, Gunn Sara Enli,
Nancy Thumim
“Becoming a ‘Tweep’. Networks of affiliation and relational pressures on Twitter”,
Stine Lomborg
“Pakistani and U.S. Press Content on Benazir Bhutto’s Assassination Frame Her
Dynasty, Destiny, Death and their Secrets”, Tania Cantrell Rosas Moreno, Ingrid
Bachmann
“Propuesta de sistematización de la teoría del framing para el estudio y praxis de la
comunicación política”, Teresa Sádaba Garraza, Jordi Rodriguez Virgili, Manuel
Bartolomé Castro
“Gendered television use of diaspora youth in Flanders (Northern Belgium): an
audience research”, Fien Anna Adriaens