[Air-l] journals already exist

[Barry Wellman]

My own feeling is that the more journals, the better.
Even though I am have a conflict of interest as an editor of Information,
Communication and Society.

But I also must point out that "we" already have a bunch of journals right
up our alley.

iCS (the aforementioned)
New Media & Society
The Information and Society
JCMC (online only): Journal of Computer Mediated Communication

plus some more specialized ones.

So there are already many places to publish.

And as a frequent referee, I do not see the field swamped with too many
good papers.

In short, let there be 1 or 5 new journals, if there is energy and quality
to sustain them, but please folks take advantage of what's out there
already.

 Barry Wellman
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