La carrera por la atención

Information processing has been a critical element in all forms of social development but the current conditions of life, sharply technological, mean that the fact of creating, processing and transmitting information is today a source of productivity and power. Nowadays, people work in an environment of information competition: much of the information circulating is delivered in order to gain visibility. But attention is a precious and scarce commodity because everyone directs their attention according to personal priorities

Reuse of news footage: practical, legal and ethical issues

This paper first describes the characteristics of video news footage regarding its thematic variety, its historical, sociological, ethnological and corporate value, its polysemy, its redundancy and renewable interest, and its volume and diversity. Then, it discusses the practical, legal and ethical issues related to the reuse of news footage, including moral rights, technical considerations, identification of archive material and the proper use of shots of identifiable people. In order to illustrate these topics, some real examples are included

Depósitos: un factor psicológico de desconfianza

Podeu consultar la versió en català a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/16818Los depósitos no inspiran suficiente confianza. Y no hay motivos para esta desconfianza, excepto por un factor psicológico, visceral, semántico: la palabra repositorio. Antigua en castellano y recién incorporada al catalán, la palabra repositorio provoca una sensación negativa, involuntaria y seguramente inconsciente, que podría agregarse a los doce factores que apunta Alice Keefer (2007) para explicar la resistencia de muchos autores a incluir sus trabajos en los archivos institucionales conocidos como depósitos..

En la ciencia de lo secreto

Cryptography has had a significant historical influence for over two millennia. It's an ancient science which was already used by Romans, among others, to keep their communications safe from enemies. For centuries, until the 1970s, it was a black art practised by only a few governments and armies. It is now a well-established discipline that is taught in universities, it's available for use by businesses and individuals, and it protects many areas of everyday life. This ancient technique now faces the threat of quantum computing, which might cause the collapse of the cryptographic techniques known to date

La planificación económica en Andalucía

Se analiza la política económica y social de la Junta de Andalucía durante el período autonómico, en cuanto a los planes de distinto carácter. En concreto, se estudian los planes económicos, los planes de desarrollo regional, los acuerdos de concertación social y los programas sectoriales y horizontales. En cada uno de ellos, se expone, en lo posible, la historia de los planes, su elaboración y tramitación, la estrategia seguida, los objetivos, las prioridades sectoriales, la financiación y la ejecución y el control..Aunque la opinión de conjunto es favorable, se apuntan una serie de defectos que deberían ser tenidos en cuenta por los responsables de la planificación