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El mundo de las presencias es simulado, presentado y representado en el medio digital. En el contexto de la comunicación digital-virtual, y a partir de las recientes transformaciones en sus soportes, las colecciones multimodales de información pasan a un estado en el que el acceso de los sujetos informacionales a la información se puede facilitar y ampliar. En tal universo, la información y los datos representados necesitan tratamientos conceptuales y técnicos que respeten la naturaleza y las particularidades de los medios y de los lenguajes que transitan por ellos. Además, al ser procesados en un medio frágil como es el digital, la información codificada para medios electrónicos ta...
"Now in its twelfth edition, this essential resource is the go-to text for students and authors who want to accurately reference sources and avoid plagiarism in their work"--
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
This book presents the history and theoretical contributions of Brazilian geography since the late twentieth century and shows how this sphere of knowledge has been organically integrated with social and territorial issues and with social movements. The relationship between the subjects and objects of research in Brazilian geography has been centred on the understanding and transformation of realities marked by injustice and inequality. Against this backdrop, the geography of the country has developed by integrating, relating to, and forming part of those realities as it headed out into the streets. Brazilian geography continues to hold theoretical debate in high regard as a result of the influence of critical theory. This book thus covers the theoretical approaches in Brazilian geography, its different lines of research, and above all its character as manifested in culture and society.
Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours, but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential of humanity to "transhumanise". This dynamic of self-transcendence in Dante’s humanism (Ossola), which claims for European civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the conception of vision as a learning process and...