Thirty Years is Really Something

Abstract

The first issue of Comunicación y Sociedad, today Communication & Society, was published in 1988. It was a dream already outlined in a document entitled “Requirements Plan”, dated May 1976, that came true. It stated that “The purpose of the School was to launch a Journal” (Barrera, 2009, p. 266). In addition, the document described some characteristics that the project should include. The journal was one of the many proposals contained in this ambitious plan. After the approval of the three first faculties of information sciences in Spain, in 1971, a founder member described the plan as “a type of Magna Carta of the School”, created to be the guidelines for the development of the faculties during many years (Gómez Antón, 2002, p. 178).