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The impact that a new technology item such as the mobile phone has on today's society, in particular, on the life of adolescents aged 12 - 16, is analyzed and discussed. In the information society we are living in, changes are ever quickening. Consequently, interpenonal relationships are being modified. Many of these transformations affects adolescents transforming their habits, attitudes and ways of relationships around this technology, both with their friends and families.

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Information and communication technologies (ICT) are imposing a radical reform in journalism and media education. Without a strategic, participatory pedagogical vision, journalism and media literacy will not work to the advantage of the plan for a democratic and inclusive information society. By the same token, they will be unable to reduce the gap experienced world-wide between training and employment, nor will they have a positive impact on Government or media operators’ policies, nor on the practices of professionals and citizens, particularly in cyberspace. The media are a source of knowledge, a development tool, a citizenship matrix, a source for construction of the «social being» and peace. The ultimate issue is the advent of an inclusive information society, and particularly in the countries of the South, its solid emergence depends on an «emancipation journalism». This must be the objective of all media education.

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The objective of the present study is to highlight the importance of online newspapers in the formation of public opinion, by discovering whether they promote positive or negative attitudes towards immigration or contribute to increasing awareness about the impact of the digital press in educational and developmental terms. With this in mind, we carried out a comparative study of the digital versions of the two widest selling, broad-based daily newspapers in Spain: el mundo.es and el pais.com. We used the same methodology as that used in Comparative Education, analyzing the content of articles published between January 2009 and June 2010. Although there are many similarities between the two newspapers and both coincide in supporting the process of integrating immigrants into Spanish society, they differ in the strategies to be followed for achieving the sought-after goal of peaceful coexistence between migrants and the host community. «El Mundo» tends to favour adopting strategies that encourage immigrants to adapt to the established norms and guidelines of the host society; in the articles of «El País», on the other hand, the requirement for them to adapt is not regarded as necessary. However, the various ideological lines expressed in the articles that we analyzed enable us to draw the conclusion that they do not coincide to a significant degree with the editorial line of the newspaper publishing them.

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The information society has seen the power of the media increase in size and influence. Advances in technology allow for the instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information across the planet. However, despite the amount of information and media resources available, many of us question the extent of how informed we really are. Among the range of media, television holds supreme and imposes its rules on other media forms. Within this study the television genre of the news is analysed focusing on the role of the so called «soft news» or «other news» along with the function they perform in the transmission of the dominant social values.

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We speak about the "information society", but very often without any critical consideration. This article considers whether we can really say that we live in the "information society" and raises questions regarding the information that we receive from big business, political powers and stakeholders, inequalities between countries and social classes, and other topics such as net neutrality or social networks.

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The results of studies on changes in the ecosystem of information and communication in the digital age are discussed., including how to use internet and mobile phones to work, play and interact through social networks. This new environment has changed the way libraries and librarians serve their users. The need for libraries to become “nodes” of the social networks of citizens is addressed.

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Reference services have developed at the same pace as technology. Different aspects of the information society related to reference services provided by libraries and information centres are presented, including a description of the ubiquity, immediacy and participation that define the digital society. Digital reference is part of the information society and reflects the evolution of reference services offered by information centres. The characteristics of digital reference are described: telematic services, hybrid collections and skilled professionals.

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Discussion of diverse enterprise concepts around the present Society of the information (supposedly, of the New economy). The introduction of the information technologies (ICT) has modified the structure of the companies and the ways they make businesses. The article analyzes two subjects: a) If these modifications have generated a "new economy" or only a temp growth of the productivity that, nevertheless, stays in the tracks of the classic economy. b) If the definitions of company-network, company-in-the-network, and alike, are applied correctly, or it is necessary to consider a new structure of companies like a new ontological category. Two examples of this new definition with Amazon and VISA are given. The concepts discussed have an immediate repercussion in the corresponding information systems of the new enterprenurial structures.