Public cyberspace

Carpet bombing in cyberspace

Pérez Martínez, V — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:29:05 +0000

“Carpet bombing in cyberspace” is the title of an article written ( wrote esta mal) by Charles W. Williamson in Armed Forces Journal published in the United States. He considers the possibility of the United States to create a “robot net military” (botnet). The objective is to protect against the sophisticated threats of the military and civilian in cyberspace.

That article is a good material of lecture but to analyze the new relations international in the age of the Internet.

Full article in: AJS

The multimedia report

Pérez Martínez, V — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:15:40 +0000

The research belongs to the studies about the message and it is linked to the researches carried out at the Faculty of Communication at the University of La Habana, especially those regarding the “cyberjournalistic” genres area faced with the impact of information and communication technologies. Moreover, it approaches the multimedia report as a genre of current digital journalism, based on the analysis of the formal and content features of the traditional report and its possible modifications to fit the features of the communication on the net, that distinguish journalism for and by means of Internet, namely “hypertextuality”, “multimediality”, interactivity.

Liliam Marrero Santana published in the “Revista Latina de Comunicación Social” the article: The multimedia report as a genre of current digital journalism. [Full article]

Congress of the Latin American Communication Research Association

Pérez Martínez, V — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:28:41 +0000

On the 9th, 10th and 11th of October professionals, investigators and academics of the massmedia world will get together.The congress will take place in Mexico.

Full information in: http://alaic.net/alaic30

El Salvador: Freedom of expression in the Net

Pérez Martínez, V — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:02:43 +0000

Laprensagrafica.com published an interesting article about Internet in El Salvador.
The net is today the most useful tool for the defense of human rights. The data indicates that the penetration of the web in the society Salvadorian is more important that the information registred by some researchers and institutions. The cyberspace is a field in where the persons can share the same tastes. It is a channel to be in contact, knowledge and enjoyment.

[Full article]

The superstitions in the cyberspace

Pérez Martínez, V — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:55:18 +0000

Kenya Ramírez, published an article about the subject in Exelsior.com.mx . I think that is very interesting for an initial analysis. In the article she took as a reference Gerardo Herra.

Gerardo Herra, who is an expert in mass media and an academic of the Panamericana University considers that the superstitions ate moving from the physical world to the cyberspace

The “hoax email”, with superstitions, lies or strange experiences, will continue coming to ours computers. This activity form a part of the human being.

Full article in:

http://www.exonline.com.mx/diario/noticia/primera/temadeldia_nacional/encadenan_la_supersticion/305824

The 88% of houses in Spain have connexion of broadband

Pérez Martínez, V — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:22:59 +0000

According to El País, 88% of the houses in Spain have broadband connexion to Internet utilizing broadband, exceeding the European averaged. Another of the statistics data 22 million of the city dweller with more of 10 years indicated that are connected to Internet in some occasions.

Information has been published in Informe 2007-Red.es. This organization belongs to Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio of Spain.

Full article in: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/88/hogares/Internet/cuenta/banda/ancha/elpeputec/20080623elpepunet_7/Tes