Littera Deusto

Modern Languages, Basque Studies and Humanities

Markup language

diciembre 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on Markup language

A markup laguage is not a real language, it consists of annotations to text that provide us instructions about its structure and how to show it. This kind of  language have existed since a long time ago but nowadays it is used in computer typesetting and word-processing systems.
Nowadays, the most common markedup language used is […]

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Web 2.0

diciembre 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on Web 2.0

This web known as web 2.0 is the second generation of the web before. When we talk abouth the web 2.0 we are talking about all those utilities and internet services that are based on a database which can be modified by every user that wants to do so. They can change its content as […]

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Orality, writing and hypermedias.

diciembre 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Orality, writing and hypermedias.

Orality is a verbal expression used when writing and printing were unknown at all. Studies of oral tradition and orality are pretty much connected. However, orality also touches some other aspects such as political and economial. According to Walter J. Ong, there are two types of orality:

Primary orality: This refers to those cultures that didn’t have […]

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Kevin Kelly

noviembre 5th, 2008 · Comments Off on Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly was born in 1952 in Pelsylvannia and graduated from the high school of Westfield in New Jersey. He is the executive director of the Wired magazine as well as a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog.  Apart from this, although he has not college or university degree,s he has alsoo been a photographer and a […]

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