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La lista de herramientas online para contar historias es casi interminable. Tal vez por eso hay que repetir una y otra vez que las nuevas tecnologías y la imaginación no tienen por qué ser términos contrapuestos. Al contrario, la imaginación es una elección permanente hacia la comunicación. Aquello que es imaginado en la escuela, como por ejemplo cualquier historia, se desea también compartir. Y el ordenador, entre otras funciones, sirve para transmitir y compartir al mismo tiempo. Via Adriana Marichal, TecnoSalva, Mariano Fernandez Delete the scoop?
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..."project titled "Geographies of the World's Knowledge" has just gone live on the new Oxford Internet Institute data visualisation site. In the project, we use a range of visualisation techniques to map literacy, Internet penetration, the world's newspapers, academic knowledge, Flickr, Wikipedia, and user-generated content indexed in Google".
“Geographies of the World’s Knowledge”, which you hold in your hands today, is a joint venture between Convoco and the Oxford Internet Institute. It reflects upon the distribution of the world’s knowledge, and discusses ten key words, from literacy to user-generated content.
Data, evaluated in an unprecedented way, shows the current distribution of knowledge in the different parts of the globe. Some of the implications of this are surprising, others are worrying. The maps visualise where the foci of knowledge – and, thus, the forces of innovation and economic growth – are located. Thanks to this scientific visualisation the most important factors involved can be grasped at a glance. It also provides evidence of a paradigm shift towards a new visual language in the domain of sciences..."