http://uocpapers.uoc.edu/ UOC Papers is an interdisciplinary electronic journal produced by the UOC which looks to publish original university papers that focus on the conflux of the subject areas dealt with by universities in the knowledge society. The journal also looks to act as a platform for the publicising of new publications relating to this same area. UOC en-GB The texts published in UOC Papers are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivativeWorks 2.5 licence. UOC UOC http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/eng/editorial.html Josep Fuster Sobrepere Globalisation has completely changed the scale of territorial intervention. The global economy has generated continental spaces of economic cooperation and trade. http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/vegara.html Alfonso Vegara The internet is now a constant in all parts of life and at all levels: personal, academic and professional. In only a few years, the internet has changed the way we relate, study, work, shop, spend our free time, etc. The web, the collection of resources accessible over the internet, has become a gargantuan oracle where people search, create and share information on any subject, and where they communicate globally, breaking down the barriers of time and space. http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/webscience.html Julià Minguillón (coord.) The evolution of the World Wide Web (or simply the web) since its birth in the 1980s has been staggering. The incorporation of new users, which has been exponential over time, and the constant contributions of new ways of organising data, communicating, sharing information, etc., have led to its gaining a practically unstoppable inertia in just two decades. http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/riera.html Daniel Riera Web Science is the interdisciplinary study of the World Wide Web as a first-order object in order to understand its relationship with the wider societies in which it is embedded, and in order to facilitate its future engineering as a beneficial object. http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/ohara_hall.html Kieron O'Hara, Wendy Hall This article shows the evolution that distance education has undergone recently from a new perspective, Web Science, which studies how the Web has evolved not only technologically but also socially and organisationally. http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/minguillon.html Julià Minguillón This article analyses the use of open source resources and free software in contemporary audiovisual creation and production processes. http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/alberich_roig.html Jordi Alberich, Antoni Roig Cyber-feminisms form part of post-modern thought and the crisis of the subject of modernity. They have a new medium, cyberspace, which, thanks to its specific nature, places them in parallel to historical feminisms. http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/salas.html Eva Salas Gender Trouble, the work on which so-called queer theory is based and the emblem of gender studies as we know them today, is vital for understanding current feminist theory. http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/butler.html This book, with its related website and accompanying CD featuring volume 1 of the Electronic Literature Collection, is intended to help electronic literature move into the classroom. http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/hayles.html Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, where the power of the media producer and the power of the consumer interact in unpredictable ways. http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/jenkins.html Has the World Wide Web evolved into a new life form? The author of this provocative book, Philip Tetlow, presents a very compelling argument that it indeed has. http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/tetlow.html The use and consumption of communication media are changing. These changes are often due to the spread of ICTs, and the internet in particular. This book presents the results of research on the internet in the field of the audiovisual in Catalonia. It confirms that consumers, who were until now passive, are now becoming vital players in the communication processes. http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/tubella_tabernero_dwyer.html