Youtube: fenòmen social, cultural i artístic

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The FaceUOC Project : An Open Social Learning experience by the Open University of Catalonia

The possibilities and expansion of the use of Web 2.0 has opened up a world of possibilities in online learning. In spite of the integration of these tools in education major changes are required in the educational design of instructional processes.This paper presents an educational experience conducted by the Open University of Catalonia using the social network Facebook for the purpose of testing a learning model that uses a participation and collaboration methodology among users based on the use of open educational resources.- The aim of the experience is to test an Open Social Learning (OSL) model, understood to be a virtual learning environment open to the Internet community, based on the use of open resources and on a methodology focused on the participation and collaboration of users in the construction of knowledge.- The topic chosen for this experience in Facebook was 2.0 Journeys: online tools and resources. The objective of this 5 weeks course was to provide students with resources for managing the various textual, photographic, audiovisual and multimedia materials resulting from a journey.- The most important changes in the design and development of a course based on OSL are the role of the teacher, the role of the student, the type of content and the methodology:- The teacher mixes with the participants, guiding them and offering the benefit of his/her experience and knowledge.- Students learn through their participation and collaboration with a mixed group of users.- The content is open and editable under different types of license that specify the level of accessibility.- The methodology of the course was based on the creation of a learning community able to self-manage its learning process. For this a facilitator was needed and also a central activity was established for people to participate and contribute in the community.- We used an ethnographic methodology and also questionnaires to students in order to acquire results regarding the quality of this type of learning experience.- Some of the data obtained raised questions to consider for future designs of educational situations based on OSL:- Difficulties in breaking the facilitator-centred structure- Change in the time required to adapt to the system and to achieve the objectives- Lack of commitment with free courses- The trend to return to traditional ways of learning- Accreditation- This experience has taught all of us that education can happen any time and in any place but not in any way.

On Transmission System Design for Wireless Broadcasting

This thesis considers aspects related to the design and standardisation of transmission systems for wireless broadcasting, comprising terrestrial and mobile reception. The purpose is to identify which factors influence the technical decisions and what issues could be better considered in the design process in order to assess different use cases, service scenarios and end-user quality. Further, the necessity of cross-layer optimisation for efficient data transmission is emphasised and means to take this into consideration are suggested. The work is mainly related terrestrial and mobile digital video broadcasting systems but many of the findings can be generalised also to other transmission systems and design processes. The work has led to three main conclusions. First, it is discovered that there are no sufficiently accurate error criteria for measuring the subjective perceived audiovisual quality that could be utilised in transmission system design. Means for designing new error criteria for mobile TV (television) services are suggested and similar work related to other services is recommended. Second, it is suggested that in addition to commercial requirements there should be technical requirements setting the frame work for the design process of a new transmission system. The technical requirements should include the assessed reception conditions, technical quality of service and service functionalities. Reception conditions comprise radio channel models, receiver types and antenna types. Technical quality of service consists of bandwidth, timeliness and reliability. Of these, the thesis focuses on radio channel models and errorcriteria (reliability) as two of the most important design challenges and provides means to optimise transmission parameters based on these. Third, the thesis argues that the most favourable development for wireless broadcasting would be a single system suitable for all scenarios of wireless broadcasting. It is claimed that there are no major technical obstacles to achieve this and that the recently published second generation digital terrestrial television broadcasting system provides a good basis. The challenges and opportunities of a universal wireless broadcasting system are discussed mainly from technical but briefly also from commercial and regulatory aspect

El Uso del cine en el aula de ELE

En los últimos años existe un interés creciente en la incorporación de material audiovisual en las aulas de ELE gracias, en mayor medida, al avance de las nuevas tecnologías que facilitan su uso. Sin embargo, todavía no se saca todo su potencial como material para trabajar las destrezas interculturales que contempla el actual MECD. En el siguiente ensayo apuntaremos algunas de esas razones, sobre el cine en general y el español en particular, y las diferentes aproximaciones que pueden contemplarse según las características del alumnado

Cortosionismo: hablar por los cortos: propuesta didáctica para el uso del cortometraje en el aula de ELE

En este estudio se apuesta por utilizar el material audiovisual en el aula de español como segunda lengua, ya que este material actúa como un sustituto de la realidad en la clase y conecta con el mundo conocido por el aprendiente

La nocturnitat en la il·luminació dels clips musicals actuals

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Aproximaciones al estudio de la interacción individuo-paisaje a modo de evocacion comunicativa intrapersonal (2a. parte)

El análisis de la interacción individuo-paisaje presenta numerosas perspectivas de estudio vinculadas a la generación e interpretación de simbolismos e imaginarios. La capacidad significante y/o de evocación comunicativa del paisaje encuentra, en la comunicación intrapersonal, una argumentación relevante en el proceso de construcción de un aparato teórico que permita estudiar el proceso de apropiación y vivencia del paisaje en términos de manifestación comunicativa. El despliegue de un aparato teórico que permita interpretar el mensaje del paisaje así como descodificar su discurso intangible, representa el objetivo principal de la investigación que se presenta a continuación.

Aproximaciones al estudio de la interacción individuo-paisaje a modo de evocación comunicativa intrapersonal (1a. parte)

The analysis of the individual-landscape interaction presents different perspectives of study related to the generation and interpretation of symbolisms and imaginary. The significant capability and/or of communicative evocation of the landscape finds, in the intrapersonal communication, a relevant argumentation in the process of construction of a theoretical device. This question allows to study the process of appropriation and experience of the landscape in terms of communicative action. The development of a theoretical device that allows to interpret the message of the landscape as well as to decode its intangible speech, represents the main aim of the research that appears next.

Los nuevos activos del árbitro de baloncesto: poder blando, empatía y comunicación. El caso del Comité catalán de Árbitros de Baloncesto

The basketball refereeing has undergone many changes in the last ten years. This article claims to combine some conceptual and methodological basis to define the meanings for the so called ‘modern refereeing’. Indeed, this research is concerned to the analysis of the new communication skills as an inseparable asset to the arbitration task, characterized by the dialogue, the administration of 'soft power', the emotional management and the adoption of a renewed and empathic attitude towards all the components of the game. Finally, this paper will propose the concretion of some specific communicative characteristics of the basketball refereeing in the XXI century.

La comunicología y el estudio transversal del paisaje. Articulaciones conceptuales y propuesta de indicadores comunicativos para la evaluación de los paisajes

La gestión y evaluación del paisaje exige la necesaria convergencia de disciplinas en aras de delimitar los valores que la propia sociedad otorga al paisaje. El establecimiento de metodologías de análisis de tipo cualitativo parece satisfacer, en la mayoría de los casos, las necesidades de la comunidad científica en relación con la catalogación del paisaje. Las dificultades surgen cuando lo que pretende es clasificar el paisaje a partir de indicadores más de tipo cualitativo, lo que implica, sin lugar a dudas, la búsqueda de disciplinas que aporten más luz al ya de por sí complejo estudio de los denominados como valores intangibles del paisaje. La Comunicología representa, en este sentido, un aporte disciplinario novedoso, sobre todo en el sentido de intentar habilitar un lenguaje del paisaje, a partir del cual fijar los cimientos de su interpretación simbólica e identitaria. Así, las contribuciones teóricas del interaccionismo simbólico, de la ecología humana, de la psicología cognitiva o de la semiótica visual, entre otras, permiten vislumbrar las posibilidades de estudio del paisaje desde un punto de vista comunicológico. En este ensayo se sitúan los indicadores de evaluación de los paisajes en la órbita de la aportación disciplinar de la Comunicología. De ahí se abre un horizonte de posibilidades infinitas para el que se podría denominar como “abordaje comunicológico del paisaje”, con especiales sinergias en la concepción del paisaje como elemento activo de comunicación.

Identidad territorial y promoción turística: la organización de eventos como estrategia de creación, consolidación y difusión de la imagen de marca del territorio

Gertakizun baten antolaketa paradigmatikoa da in situ bizi izandako lurraldeirudien eraikuntza-prozesuan. Parte-hartzaileen imaginario kolektiboan finkatzeko helburuaz antolatutako gertakizunak direla eta, fabrikatutako lurralde-irudiek – turistikoak zein bestelakoak– sustapen turistikorako alternatiba bitxia planteatzen dute, gertakizunaren kudeaketa-estrategian bertan dagoena. Izan ere, gertakizunak, berez, lurraldearen sustapenerako estrategia garrantzitsua adierazten du; are gehiago, irudien katalizatzaile ere bihur daiteke, eta bere osotasunean hiri-marka bat finkatzeko gai diren imaginarioak sor ditzake. Artikulu honetan, identitate-posizionamenduari eta lurralde-sustapenari dagokienean, gertakizun baten antolaketak eskeintzen dituen aukerak ezagutarazten dira.

Pensamiento geográfico versus teoría de la comunicación. Hacia un modelo de análisis comunicativo del paisaje

The study of the communicative implications related to landscapes opens a wide range of possibilities concerning the treatment of the communication and landscape relationship. Issues such as the effects of the landscape on the processes of human communication (intrapersonal and interpersonal communication), the follow-up of the communicative processes by means of which the landscape becomes an object of trade (mass communication), the construction of individual and collective imaginaries arising from the citizenship and landscape exchange and, recently, the construction of territorial identities through the production of a brand image of a city or country (i. e., tourist promotion, city marketing and branding). All of them have important implications in the contemporary societies. For that reason, it appears almost essential to progress towards a communicative landscape model, a target which becomes possible if we interrelate geography and communication studies, two fields apparently unrelated one another concerning their origins and practice, although they are very close if we look at the recent evolution of their paradigms and the approach to certain concepts, such as space and landscape.