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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Observatorio (OBS*) journal’s latest issue is now available.

Vol {5}, No {4} (2011), including contributions from scholars from Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Israel, India, Brazil, Spain, USA and Portugal, published in English, Spanish and Portuguese, is now available to any interested reader, free of charge – simply go to the website [http://obs.obercom.pt ] and register.

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 e-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*) e-journal is a publication with international character, which accepts and publishes texts written in Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Italian, French and 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

Tiago Lima
Journal Manager

Articles
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Same tune, different words: The creative destruction of the music industry
Jim Rogers, Sergio Spavriero

Italian Feature Films on National Public and Commercial Broadcasters
Marco Cucco, Jean-Pierre Candeloro

Internalizing the Taboo: Israeli Women Respond to Commercials for Feminine
Hygiene Products
Sigal Barak-Brandes

Crafting a community radio ‘friendly’ broadcast policy in Nepal
Sudhamshu Dahal, I. Arul Aram

Communication, City and Tourism: A Study on the Representations of
Tourist-related Violence in Mega Events held in Rio de Janeiro
Ricardo Freitas

International policy preferences, technological standard-setting and
digital television
María Trinidad García Leiva

Semantic Networks for Corporate Communication Concepts and Crisis:
Differences Based on Corporate Reputation
Mª Victoria Carrillo, James A. Danowski, Ana Castillo, Juan Luis Tato
Jimenez

The Eu e os Outros Project – a case study
Susana Henriques, Ana Filipa Soledade

Nuevos desafios para las PYMES. Las Webs corporativas en España Y
Portugal.
María García García, M. Victoria Carrillo Durán, Ana Castillo Díaz

Comunicação como exercício de cidadania: um estudo comparativo de
experiências no Brasil e em Portugal
Tarciana de Queiroz Mendes Campos, Paulo Júnior Silva Pinheiro

Comunicação Organizacional e investimentos em sustentabilidade
Renata Freitas, Raquel Lobão

As tecnologias de Videoconferência no Ensino Superior Público Português:
Tendências e Boas Práticas
Samuel Frazão Martins, Lídia Oliveira

Corrientes historiográficas de las relaciones públicas: la historia de
una profesión en entredicho
Natalia Rodriguez-Salcedo

Competências infocomunicacionais em ambientes digitais.
Jussara Borges, Lídia Oliveira

A confraria do comentário do futebol na TV: evolução dos programas
televisivos feitos com adeptos dos maiores clubes portugueses
Felisbela Lopes, Luís Miguel Loureiro