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Número 118 |
20 enero 2014 |
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What’s the word? by: Gwen Bloomsburg Although Andy Warhol said it about human beings, perhaps we can now adapt it to language: “In the future, every word will be world famous for 15 minutes:” This may very well be the case with selfie, chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as Word of the Year 2013. Most people probably recognize the word, or at least the type of self-portraiture (usually taken via smartphone) to which it refers. Designation of a particular term as word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries is not based on status as a neologism but can be recognition of a spike in usage and prominence. Selfie itself has been around for a decade but had a very big 2013. What cultural conclusions may be drawn from selfie, then? Perhaps people are more self-obsessed than ever, or else we seek to escape our solitude by sharing ourselves, or at least our selfies, with others. In contrast, Dictionary.com deemed privacy the word of the year, in recognition of spying scandals and debates over social media sites using our data (and some of those selfies?) for their own ends. Without a doubt, many who embraced selfies in 2013 wish they had opted for privacy instead. Which impulse will have sway in 2014 remains to be seen, but if the appropriation of Warhol is apt, the clock is already ticking on both words.
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Descarga legal de libros por: Gino Naranjo Existen cientos de páginas que ofrecen libros, artículos y textos listos para descargar, pero la mayoría de ellos no cumplen con licencias y derechos de autor. En el blog en la nube TIC han realizado una excelente recopilación de páginas, que por el contrario si respetan estos derechos y además su descarga es gratuita. A continuación algunas de estas opciones. Proyecto Guttemberg: Catálogo con más de 40.000 títulos de libros de dominio público en varios idiomas. Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Con ensayos y literatura en español y gallego. Many Books: cientos de libros sobre temáticas diversas. Dominio público.es: web española que ofrece traducciones de dominio público de obras de la literatura universal, incluyendo autores clásicos, decimonónicos y de principios de siglo. Catálogo abierto de libros y publicaciones de la OEI: todas las obras están en formato PDF, y algunas demás, en formato EPUB.
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Contacto: gbloomsburg@udla.edu.ec, g.naranjo@udlanet.ec |