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The most recent conference of Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2007) was held in August 2007 in Singapore. The main developments in metadata, especially the Dublin [...]

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International projects for reforming and broadening the scope of the current technical guidelines and standards on thesauri are presented. The aims of these projects are to [...]

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A paradigm shift is taking place in cataloguing codes. After the massive success of simple information retrieval systems like Google, some cataloguers are calling for a simplification [...]

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Knowing the factors that search engines consider in their ranking results is key for webmasters. This knowledge is an advantage for a website’s owner, as the site improves [...]

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Starting with the concept of vaporware, we present a critical point of view about the Web Semantic Project. Both positive aspects and others that may only represent a new [...]

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Opac has been in the eye of the hurricane for a number of years, evolving to provide management programs with more functionality in terms of accessibility, understood as the [...]

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Current trends in natural language processing and information retrieval are briefly analysed to show their impace on the search engine market. Powerset and Hakia are highlighted [...]

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La Web semántica aún parece una promesa de futuro, y corre el riesgo de pasarle como a muchos jugadores de fútbol, que se quedan en promesas y luego nunca llegan a nada. [...]

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A semantic browser is any tool for browsing semantic content, or for browsing content based on semantic data. Other systems exist that let users make use of Semantic Web content [...]

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The profitability of information and documentation services, whether public or private, is discussed, with special attention to the relationship with the organization that [...]

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Advanced information services developed in Spanish public libraries are examined, as well as some of the information resources widely available online. The author calls for [...]

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The development of the European Digital Library, a project that will give European citizens access to our cultural heritage, raises many questions about this project’s compatibility [...]

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Distributing news summaries by means of content syndication significantly improved access to current information, but has had only moderate acceptance despite optimistic predictions. [...]

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Books and the public libraries that house them are immersed in a society that is undergoing continuous transformation and are influenced by the growing commercialization of [...]

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University studies of Library and Information Sciences (LIS) in Spain are experiencing a setback in the number of students enrolled. This also happens in other disciplines, [...]

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This paper recovers the original spirit of the continuous crack approaches, where displacements jumps across the crack are smeared over the affected elements and the behaviour [...]

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In the audiovisual field, mystery journalism has historically been considered as a smaller and disdained gender, reduced to a ridiculous situation by the lack of absolute [...]

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Movies are one of the objects of study for Social Psychology because they are not only art or industry; they are a way of socialization. Therefore, movies show behaviour models, [...]

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The analysis of the educational function of television should not be strictly limited to the contents of the programmes, but it should also examine the way in which these [...]

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«The television magnifying glass» is a multimedia project for secondary school students that use a Web site to offer advice and proposals for learning to watch television. [...]

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Television and publicity were never two independent screens as the second sustains the first, but since the end of the nineties Internet has become a meta-screen that feeds [...]

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Social and technological transformations undergone during the last decades have lead to contemporary societies, where image has become one of the key elements. Although this [...]

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Traditionally, Education for Media has been oriented to individualized media as a function of their background identity: press, radio and television. In a context of hybridism [...]

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This paper analyzes the models of Public Television in Spain (TVE) and Great Britain (BBC), within the different contexts in which both entities are created and developed. [...]

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This paper is based on the necessity for developing audiovisual democracy and for proposing specific practices for the deactivation of media persuasive elements as its consequence. [...]

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Nowadays, digitalization of contents constitutes one of the keys of the development in the educational sector. The ubiquitous proliferation of mobile phones and portable devices, [...]

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Describing television in terms of quality is difficult, even more when it comes to the Spanish television audience, which is divided into two main tendencies: on the one hand, [...]

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The mass media, increasingly more present in the society, seem to be losing their social sense and their function of citizenship formation, for the benefit of business logic [...]

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Soap opera is an entertainment phenomenon based on melodrama. Along its existence it has been considered as a mediocre way to entertain people. Its rating and success has [...]

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This article seeks to deepen, on the one hand, into the development of new marketing strategies using TV as platform and aimed at promoting consumption among young girls. [...]

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In the last years a communicative phenomenon, the «TV Baby Sitter», has appeared on the most important mass media. This fact represents that TV is becoming an educational [...]

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Due to the changes produced in TV programming, and also to the increasing importance of audiovisual media, TV viewers associations have been working for about two decades [...]

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In this work, we reflect on the presence of the television in people’s lives and the need to promote the regularization of television programmes, as well as the literacy [...]

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The author of this paper defends that the mass media in which she works, stimulates for the show. The influence of television in society has reopened the discussion about [...]

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The design of TV programmes schedule according to the different profiles of the audience favours a customized television watching by selective audiences. This work determines [...]

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Young people spend more time watching television than attending classes at school. However, violent, aggressive or just clearly harmful programmes are broadcast for the minors [...]

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The rate of mass media per inhabitant is particularly high in Uruguay. Nevertheless, there aren´t many experiences in teacher training and formation of a critical consciousness. [...]

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We have developed a methodology for a «Critical reading of TV advertisements». It consists of a guidebook for educators, cards for adolescents and a video. It has been presented [...]

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Educating in mediations is a proposal of education that allows us to know the moral plexus of the main socialization agents such as the family, the school and the media. As [...]

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This paper describes an educational process which enables the participants to a critical analysis of television and its contents. This educational method has been developed [...]

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At the beginning of 2007 four experts on educational television carried out some research on the relationship between pre-university education and educational television. [...]

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Media education is one of the obligations of Portuguese public television. In the last few years, RTP2 has shown great concern about the quality of its programmes, mainly [...]

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TV is part of our daily lives and occupies an important place at home. The situation and the importance we want to give to TV is not a conscious choice. We consider watching [...]

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The formal education offered at schools has an intentional and professional curricular space that influences, in a direct way, on the people’s formation, their behaviours, [...]

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Although the image in movement in the cinema and on television is the most complex audiovisual manifestation, it should not be forgotten that it is not the only one. Oral [...]

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Image must become a basic way towards knowledge. This paper proposes to search for shocking TV images that illustrate and define cultural and scientific concepts. Audiovisual [...]

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This article describes how the new Spanish legislation for Primary and Secondary School deals with media education. Taking the basic skills as a starting point, legislative [...]

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TV parameters are speed, atomization and history absence. The weakest voices like the children´s are not usually «taken into account» by television. Schools must be rethought [...]

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The association of televiewers from Catalonia (TAC) has been working in the field of education since 1999. They aim to guarantee healthy audio-visual habits in children. For [...]

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There is an obvious social alarm concerning the media, specially the TV. In order to check out the users´ perception of this phenomenon, investigation was set up with Primary [...]

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Audiovisual language keeps on improving. Images reign, and represent us. Furthermore, the technological development already allows global interactive communication. In this [...]

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Television has a decisive influence on present sports. Television is frequently the main source of income for sports. Different sports have been transformed to adapt to television [...]

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We can say that education on television in France is entirely inscribed within education to mass media in 2007. Research studies, training and intervention testify this strong [...]

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From a brief contextualization of the connections between education and communication in Venezuela, the experiences in research under the line of «Education, communication [...]

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The television is one of many elements of our existence, and it demands from us to form active, critical and selective spectators. It is strongly agreed that living with television [...]

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Building and expanding from the classic methods of audiovisual education, this article proposes strategies to achieve a global audiovisual literacy and a full citizenship. [...]

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The present work consists of a research report focused on an experiment with image production and reading aimed at the training of teachers of the state school system in the [...]

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Three characteristics of the TV language justify the need for media literacy: the emotional nature of images, the stories, which are written to draw the attention of the viewer, [...]

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One of the ways to include the audiovisual teaching within the compulsory education system is perhaps to provide arguments consistent with the theoretical framework used by [...]

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It is said that media literacy «knows no age limits». Though most practice and literature on media education has focused so far on childhood and teenagers, there are also [...]

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Television is part of the young people´s daily life and the new technologies, such as the digital video, make a new pedagogical approach possible. This approach enables the [...]

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Changes taking place in the current media scenery will affect the television as mass media decisively. Maybe students and the rest of the people should be educated not only [...]

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This paper discusses the educational experience as a privileged social practice for the comprehension of the meaning of sport in television. We base our socio-cultural approach [...]

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How should we observe? How should we learn to observe, to be able to think critically about the images that surround and invade our interior? How should we perform so that [...]

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Television produces a homogeneization effect which in turn makes everything seem and worth the same. It creates a passive and bored viewer, in short, a consumer. This discourse [...]

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During some of the most recent years, in Portugal there has been a public debate going on about the different roles of television near some of the youngest sectors of the [...]

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Television is an important part of our daily life. TV has become «one of the family» and we cannot imagine our homes without one, two or even several TV sets. This situation [...]

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The Spanish educative system is currently going through difficult times. Violence in schools, combined with a high failure rate, outlines the necessity of an education in [...]

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This paper emphasizes the influence of TV programmes for children on their ethical values, taking some programmes of the Spanish television (TVE) as examples. Their contents [...]

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Research on the role of women in advertising in the last years has continued to be that of a sex appeal. In the majority of cases, women are used to promote products aimed [...]

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The Law in Education, recently passed by the Spanish Parliament, provides a good opportunity to promote a critical view of audiovisual media and television among the Primary [...]

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No professional of the mass media would dare to say without much ado that ‘anything goes’ to obtain publicity, to gain hearing or to compete with the adversary. That's [...]

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This paper presents the results obtained from a sample of adolescents from the Basque Country (Spain) regarding the relationship between their personal values and the values [...]

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Our general aim is to analyze whether television viewing habits contribute to defining the meaning of gender in a sample of 577 teenagers (270 boys and 307 girls) from the [...]

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This paper provides an analysis of 37 short audio-visual stories told in sketches (like a storyboard). These works were drawn by teenagers of two high-schools of Federal District [...]

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The family and mass media are the power of the society nowadays. The relationship established between them is necessary because they determine each other. This article develops [...]

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This essay approaches the problem of TV consumption regarding children in the present situation. It gives an opinion about the former proposals and offers the only possible [...]

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The audiovisual design of television continuity, as a model of corporate communication specific of television, is an identifying wrapper of the television channels. It has [...]

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Television is the most important mass media. Spain and Europe are facing deep changes caused by the implantation of digital technology. In this context, it is very important [...]

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Being part of the Society of Knowledge implies to accept the importance of the mass media in the construction of the social structure. There is no doubt about the hegemony [...]

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This article presents the preliminary results of an investigation on the meaning of television in the daily life of children, which corresponds to a study carried out on with [...]

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This paper presents part of an investigation titled «Child and television: contributions to the teacher’s work in children’s education». It studies the way in which [...]

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This work focuses on a multiple perspective of literacy adopted in accordance with the deep changes taking place in society as a result of the new Information and Communication [...]

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The focus of this contribution is the relationship between education and television. The main idea is that it is not only possible to teach television, but it is often television [...]

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Contemporary strategies of marketing and advertisement have overloaded the mass-media helping to create a materialistic society where children have become both socio-economic [...]

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This article shows some results of a present study about the main childhood stereotypes in TV programmes (soap operas, sitcoms), news and advertising. The application of content [...]

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The purpose of this study is to provide a social and educational description of the influence of TV in children’s lives. The sample included children from the 2nd level [...]

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Elderly people spend long hours in front of TV without any kind of planning. Thus, it is necessary to study TV consumption and offer guidelines to help them to watch TV from [...]

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TV has an ever-increasing power to penetrate into our homes, into public spaces and into our schools. This reality issues a challenge to parents, families, public administrations [...]

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TV has a great power as an educational tool for children. Teachers, politicians, directors, parents and general public should join forces to take advantage of TV as an instrument [...]

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This paper shows the results of a study on TV consumption at home that has been developed both in state and private Primary and High schools. This paper tries to emphasize [...]

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This paper presents some ideas about how the author sees the current television in Spain. It has been calculated that today in Spain one student of Primary or Secondary school [...]

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The increasing influence of television on childhood is unfortunately not always in accordance with the established values, principles and behaviours practised at home. This [...]

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This research tries to contribute with some information, reflections and proposals on television, and its main goal is to explore the possibilities that television offers [...]

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Education used to be in the hands of three actors: parents (and/or other family members or tutors), educators or teachers, who shared time inside the classroom with the children; [...]

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Frenzy journalism involves a determined endeavour to take active part in the subsequent future and development of an event: a journal introduces a topic for several days. [...]

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Unfortunately for visual impaired people, our society is characterised by the exaltation of the image and audiovisual media with a strong visual component. In spite of this [...]

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A new debate has arrived to the Education System. It deals with the need of an alternative teaching, an education that exceeds the academic traditions and studies the social [...]

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Infant television newscasts are news programs for children and teenagers. In some countries they are among top places. This article will research on the origin of the first [...]

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This article analyzes the strategies followed by the BBC channel to legitimize its role as public television through an approach to the citizens and a diversification of contents [...]