THE MEDIA´S NEW VOICES

What does this title suggest you?

Read the following extracts and discuss. Then, check your predictions.
• Computing is not about computers anymore, it is about life. Nicolas Neg
roponte , U.S Internet Guru.
• Everyone has a right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right in
cluded freedom to hold opinion without interference and to seek, receive and imp
art information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Univers
al declaration of rights, Article 19.
• we have usually imagined a certain special ocupation when we heard the w
ord journalist. But, in the internet era, there is not separation between sende
r and receiver of information. Each can participate in journalism... Each has a
potential competence to convey information and knowledge to others. Kazuo Namura
, Japanese sociologist.
• The internet is an elite organization; most of the population of the wor
ld has never even made a phone call. Noam Chomsky, U.S Linguist
• The Media´s selection and description of particular events --Far more th
an their editorials- Help to create or promote national issues, to shape the min
ds of the Congress and public, and to influence the president´s agenda timing. T
heodore Sorensen, special Council to U.S President John F. Kennedy
• The Free press may doubtless be good or bad, but without freedom it wil
l never be anything but bad. Albert Camus, French Writer.
• News doesn´t happen, it´s created. If there were no journalist, there
wouldn´t be any news. There would simply be facts. Carlos Luis Alvarez, Spanish
journalist.
• Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it. Rupert Murdoch, Media Ty
coon.
BRUSH UP YOUR ENGLISH!!!!
English Workshop * Proffesor Fabiana Sandmann –
Suggested
The Noam Chomsky theory, Generative grammar
Books of Derek Bickerton: 1) Adam´s Tongue; 2) Bastard Tongues

Tips:
Category subject:
Pro-drops (spanish, portuguese, italian)
No pro-drops (french, english, germany)

Spoken Cognitive – Space, time

Language
Habilities:
1- Reading
2- Writing
3- Listening
4- Speaking
5- Translating

Pirates y emperors – Noam Chomsky

Prolog
After capturing a pirate, Alexander reproached him his "profession" to which the
man replied:
- I'm a pirate because I have no more than a boat. If I had a fleet, I would be
a conqueror.
Given this reasoning, Alexander released him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

Web semantica: Tim Berners-Lee ( Él y su grupo crearon lo que por sus siglas en
inglés se denomina: Lenguaje HTML (HyperText Markup Language) o lenguaje de etiq
uetas de hipertexto; el protocolo HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), y el siste
ma de localización de objetos en la web URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
SWoogle: (Buscador semantico) new proyect