Digital Language Diversity on New Media: the DLDP Survey about European Minority Languages Speakers
| Autor: | Irene Russo, Claudia Soria |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | BAAL-Cambridge University Press Seminar on Minority Languages in New Media, 27-28/4/2017 info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Irene Russo, Claudia Soria/congresso_nome:BAAL-Cambridge University Press Seminar on Minority Languages in New Media/congresso_luogo:/congresso_data:27-28%2F4%2F2017/anno:2017/pagina_da:/pagina_a:/intervallo_pagine |
| Popis: | How does the linguistic diversity of Europe reflect in the New Media? Do regional and minority languages contribute to EU digital language diversity? In this paper we will present the results of the first survey about actual needs of European minority languages speakers regarding digital opportunities. The survey is part of the work carried out by the Digital Language Diversity Project (DLDP), a three-year Erasmus+ project started in September 2015. The goal of DLDP is helping minority languages speakers in the acquisition of intellectual and practical skills to create, share, and reuse online digital content, at the same time defining general guidelines and best practices for the promotion of minority languages with poor digital representation, a fact that further prevents their usability on digital media and devices. The focus of the project is on four European minority languages at different stages of digital developments (Basque, Breton, Karelian and Sardinian), and this will enable a comparison about the role of the availability of digital content for promotion of digital usage of these languages and development of language-based digital applications. With the aim of understanding the specific needs and the peculiar behaviours of speakers of these languages, during Spring 2016 we conducted a survey focused on gathering information about their personal digital use of the language and about any known digital resource and services that make use of the language. We received feedback from almost 2000 speakers and we are now in the position of analysing results for future actions. In particular, taking into account media user typology elaborated by Brandtzæg (2010) (e.g. entertainment, instrumental and advanced users) we aim to profile speakers' answers according to these different classes, in order to better understand how to make speakers aware of the opportunities new media offer for preservation and revitalisation of minority languages. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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