JCMC�is one of the oldest web-based Internet studies journals in existence, having been published quarterly continuously since June 1995. The journal was started by Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli in response to the growth of CMC scholarship in the early- to mid-1990s. The founding editors had the vision to make�JCMCan open-access, online journal. This, combined with high quality standards, proved to be a recipe for success: today�JCMC�is widely read and cited by CMC scholars around the world. In 2004,�JCMC�became an official journal of the International Communication Association.
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