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Language Policy 4.0 – what does it mean for minority languages?
Helen Kelly-Holmes
Saturday 31 Aug | 09:30-11:00
The investigation of language policy in digital media contexts contributes an important
dimension to a comprehensive understanding of language policy and language planning as
it focuses on non-traditional actors and non-traditional domains, which are generally free
from established regulatory frameworks and national borders. Following a review of
developments and studies to date, the paper concludes by speculating about where we are
going in terms of digital technology, namely Web 4.0 which will see increasing automation
through Artificial Intelligence, augmented reality and big data, and what this means in
terms of minority languages, language rights and language policy and planning.
Recommended readings:
WP309 Language policy 4.0 - Working Papers in Urban Language and Literacies
(wpull.org)
Evgeni Aizenberg and Jeroen van den Hoven, Designing for human rights in AI,
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2053951720949566
Kelly-Holmes H. Multilingualism and Technology: A Review of Developments in
Digital Communication from Monolingualism to Idiolingualism. Annual Review of
Applied Linguistics. 2019;39:24-39. doi:10.1017/S0267190519000102,
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2053951720949566
Digital Spaces and Minority Identities: Words as a tool of
(mis-)representation
Kyriaki Topidi
Saturday 31 Aug | 11:30-13:00
The digital public sphere recreates the pathologies of offline public space when it comes to
majority-minorities relations: it reflects predominantly white secular male domination and
often enhances the ossification and 8othering9 of minority groups. Digital representations of
anti-minority discrimination and hate speech emphasize in particular how contemporary
manifestations of discrimination are often subtle but still highlight stigmatisation, assaults
on individuals9 worth, and dehumanisation. Racialisation processes online create an impact
on their victims, regardless of whether they constitute instances of everyday racism or more
significant attacks. They also tend to conflate within racialised hostility ethnic, racial, and
religious backgrounds. This session seeks to understand how digital (mis)-representation of
ethno-cultural minority identities is made and un-made today emphasizing oppression and
strategies of resistance.
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