The European Green Capital Award is an annual award scheme set up and managed by the European Comission to recognise cities that are making a particular effort to meet high standards of environmental performance and quality of life. At the begining of September, representatives from the Basque Capital, Vitoria-Gasteiz, defended the city’s candidacy to become European Green Capital in […]
European green capital on Social Media
17 de diciembre, 2010 | Aintzane Iñiguez
Social Media in China
17 de diciembre, 2010 | Aintzane Iñiguez
How do Westerners perceive social media in China and other Eastern cultures? Based on media reports, most opinions evolve around negative or political activities. But according to Sam Flemming of CIC, Westerners can actually learn a lot from China’s social practices. First of all, social media has been prominent in China since the 1990’s. Although […]
Privacy and Security Issues on Social Networks
17 de diciembre, 2010 | María Metola
Privacy and security issues should be specially important for young people when social networking. Problems such as online reputation and privacy settings ought to be well discussed so as users have a clear idea of the consequences of the information posted. There have being several analysts working on that issues, this post is based in an […]
A 2.0 Lehendakari
17 de diciembre, 2010 | Juan Carlos Sánchez
Patxi Lopez is a politician, General-Secretary of the PSE, and the current Lehendakari (president) of the Basque Country. Though he belongs to a party with a national scope as it is PSOE, I am going to, basically, be focused on the way Patxi Lopez draws upon Web 2.0 technologies to promote his public profile as it is an important part […]
Multicultural Choice
17 de diciembre, 2010 | Juan Carlos Sánchez
Nowadays, at the information age, modern societies (specially since the Iron Curtain was torn down) have to cope with some new emerged factors that may have a remarkable impact upon people’s imaginary and self-representation: mass migration movements, the internet and the mass media dissemination. As a consequence of the disappearance of the Soviet Union that divided the world in two […]
Summarizing and Reformulating Francis Fukuyama’s “Identity and Migration” essay
17 de diciembre, 2010 | Alvaro D. Logroño
The prominent American author Francis Fukuyama reflects on Multiculturalism and Intercultural Dialogue, by connecting identity and migration issues. Modern Liberal societies have weak collective values. This is a dangerous problem to suffer in a world in which migrant movements tend to be massive. Then, if our societies cannot assert positive liberal values, if we are not […]
Privacy in Facebook: Are our photos safe?
17 de diciembre, 2010 | Goizane Bengoetxea
Nowadays, the profile of Facebook can be an identity reference. For instance, photos are a very important part of our profile and they show how we really are. For that reason, our Facebook’s profile is really important and we should be able to control it. A good way to know more about Privacy in Facebook is learning from […]
Bibliotecas romanas (trabajo grupal)
16 de diciembre, 2010 | Ainhoa Causo
Las primeras bibliotecas romanas eran privadas. El Archivo Central de Roma se adelanta a la primera biblioteca pública romana. Se llamaba Tabularium y fue construido en el año 79 a.C. Los romanos también tenían bibliotecas en casa. En Roma hubo, además, se comenzó la comercialización del libro, que dará lugar a la aparición de librerías […]
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
16 de diciembre, 2010 | Ainhoa Causo
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative edo DCMI metadatuak sustatzen dituen erakunde bat da. DCMI-ren eginkizunetan hauek ditugu: arkitektura eta modeluen gaineko lanak, DCMI komunitatean eta DCMI Talde lanetako elkarrizketak eta kolaborazio lanak, urtero konferentziak egitea , etb. Dublin Core metadatuen eredu bat da eta DCMI-k garatu eta landu egiten ditu. Organizazio honen helburua metadatuen adopzio zabala […]
Open Access
15 de diciembre, 2010 | Jone Flores
Open Access internet gure bizitzetan agertu eta gero asko hedatu den baliadidea da, honek digitalizatuta dagoen hezkuntza-materiala, material akademikoa, zientifikoa, etab. berehala, doan eta erregistratu barik eskuragarria izatea ahalbidetzen du. Honi esker, edozein erabiltzaile indibidualek bilatu, imprimatu, zabaldu, deskargatu, irakurri edo estekatu ditzake artikulo zientifikoetako testuak. Literatura zientifikoa lortzeko modu librea, eta doakoa, da. Gainera, hau ez da bakarrik testu […]
Grupos o páginas en Facebook; ¿qué escoger?
15 de diciembre, 2010 | Paula Martínez
Silvia Chauvin reconoce que la duda inicial que genera las aplicaciones de Facebook es comprensible, puesto que tanto los grupos como las páginas tienen características que se superponen. ¿Página de fans o grupo? Esta es la pregunta que se hacen muchos particulares, empresas y organizaciones a la hora de crear un perfil en Facebook. ¿Qué […]
Euskalkiak
15 de diciembre, 2010 | Ainhoa Etxebarria
Euskalki bat, euskararen dialektoetako bakoitza da, Harluxet Hiztegi Entziklopedikoaren eta Euskaltermen arabera. Euskal Herrian, tokian tokiko hizkerak ezberdinak dira, eta horrek hainbat arazo eta ikerketa sorrarazi ditu urteetan zehar. Horren ondorioz, euskalkien gaineko azterketen berri ematea komeniko litzateke. Idazle zaharrenek, modu batean zein bestean, hizkuntza aldaera horiei buruzko aipamenak egin zituzten. Horrela Leiçarragak Testamentu Berria-ren […]