Tim O'Reilly and web 2.0 : the economics of memetic liberty and control

This article presents an account of the role of Tim O'Reilly, both as an individual and as a corporate entity (O'Reilly Group), in the creation, spread and use of the concept of Web 2.0. It demonstrates that, whatever Web 2.0's current uses to describe variously the technologies, politics, commerce or social meaning of the Internet, it originates as a deliberately open signifier of novel and potential internet development in the mid-2000s. The article argues that O'Reilly has promoted the diversity of the term's meanings and uses - celebrating textual liberties - but has also emphasised the special role that O'Reilly plays in providing the authoritative definition of that term. In essence, O'Reilly profits from this 'control' of the idea of Web 2.0 but that, to enjoy that control O'Reilly must also allow differences in meaning. The article concludes by suggesting that Web 2.0 therefore signifies a new kind of economics that brings together freedom and control in a new way.

Dreams of belonging : Tim Winton's Cloudstreet

This essay is on Tim Wnton's novel Cloudstreet. It was commissioned by Copyright Agency Australia. It is written for a specific audience, teachers of English Literature and senior secondary, junior University students. It is a literary critical essay.

The quality of mercy (Tim Winton's Eyrie)

A review of Tim Winton's Eyrie.

Tim Winton: the literary and the popular

An exploration of the fiction of Australian author Tim Winton, investigating his popular and literary appeal.

As formas de representação do castelo : uma análise semiótica do cenário do programa Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum

A partir do exame de um episódio da série, o presente texto busca identificar traços marcantes na configuração da linguagem cenográfica do programa infantil Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum (TV Cultura). Para a análise, utilizamos como base a semiótica de Peirce e as relações entre os signos e as formas de representação propostas por Lúcia Santaella (2001). Essas teorias nos possibilitaram observar, com maior precisão, o cenário do programa como elemento de significação e as particularidades de seus elementos constitutivos.

Ilha rá-tim-bum: abordagem semiótica por uma tv educativa

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

The De-Totalization of History in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

This paper aims at discussing how Tim O’Brien, a veteran of the Vietnam War, reviews the American involvement in the conflict in his novel The Things They Carried (1990). The author shows the perspective of the soldiers in the stories and, therefore, presents other possibilities to analyze that historical fact. The interplay of fiction and truth is essential for O’Brien to reach the objective of reevaluating official history in order to make the readers rethink the past.

Tradução anotada, autor-tradutor invisível: Richard Francis Burton na Brasiliana

The aim of this paper is to analyze the translation of the work by the translator-traveller Richard Francis Burton, Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil, with a full account of the gold and diamond mines, made by Américo Jacobina Lacombe, trying to relate the work of the latter to the editorial goals of the Brasiliana Collection. As a subseries of the Biblioteca Pedagógica Brasileira [Brazilian Pedagogical Library] published by Companhia Editora Nacional, Brasiliana was conceived in agreement with the 1930s and 1940s policies to expand lay education and make it possible for Brazilians to get to better know the greatness of their country. The paper will focus on the numerous translator’s notes, since many of them reveal Lacombe’s didactic purpose of informing readers about Brazilian history and geography. The analysis also examines the effacement of Burton’s translations from Portuguese into English in his book.