Alfabetització digital : llegir i escriure en l'era de la informació. 'Alfabetización digital : leer y escribir en la era de la información'.

Descripción de la actividad llevada a cabo por el alumnado del CEIP San Walabonso de Niebla (Huelva), que consistió en redactar información sobre la localidad en la que viven para colgarlo en Wikipedia.

Resum del curs "Disseny de plans de formació d'habilitats informacionals en un entorn EEES a biblioteques universitàries"

Resum del curs "Disseny de plans de formació d'habilitats informacionals en un entorn EEES a biblioteques universitàries", organitzat pel CBUC, on l'objectiu principal es basava en ser capaços d’elaborar un pla de formació en habilitats informacionals pels usuaris de la biblioteca. A més d'introduir el concepte d’Alfin (Alfabetització Informacional), d'identificar els motius que fan necessari integrar l’AlFin a l’ensenyament superior, d'elaborar un pla de formació per a la biblioteca i de presentar diferents actuacions que des del Servei de Biblioteca es podrien portar a terme per integrar l’AlFin a la universitat

"IX Jornadas CRAI Evaluación de las competencias informacionales e informáticas" (resum de les jornades)

Resum de les "IX Jornadas CRAI Evaluación de las competencias informacionales e informáticas" que varen tenir lloc els dies 16 i 17 de juny de 2011, a la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

The Coming of Post-reflexive Society: Commodification and Language in Digital Capitalism

Language is a unique aspect of human communication because it can be used to discuss itself in its own terms. For this reason, human societies potentially have superior capacities of co-ordination, reflexive self-correction, and innovation than other animal, physical or cybernetic systems. However, this analysis also reveals that language is interconnected with the economically and technologically mediated social sphere and hence is vulnerable to abstraction, objectification, reification, and therefore ideology – all of which are antithetical to its reflexive function, whilst paradoxically being a fundamental part of it. In particular, in capitalism, language is increasingly commodified within the social domains created and affected by ubiquitous communication technologies. The advent of the so-called ‘knowledge economy’ implicates exchangeable forms of thought (language) as the fundamental commodities of this emerging system. The historical point at which a ‘knowledge economy’ emerges, then, is the critical point at which thought itself becomes a commodified ‘thing’, and language becomes its “objective” means of exchange. However, the processes by which such commodification and objectification occurs obscures the unique social relations within which these language commodities are produced. The latest economic phase of capitalism – the knowledge economy – and the obfuscating trajectory which accompanies it, we argue, is destroying the reflexive capacity of language particularly through the process of commodification. This can be seen in that the language practices that have emerged in conjunction with digital technologies are increasingly non-reflexive and therefore less capable of self-critical, conscious change.