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The Internet and Minorized Languages – Basque views for a panel

Luistxo Fernandez

Unesco seminar. The Internet and the promotion of linguistic diversity

Azitain Poligonoa 3 - KE-20600 EI BAR

Tel: ++34 943 821 780Fax: ++34 943 820 669

Bilbo – 2012.05

Unesco seminar The Internet and the promotion of l inguistic diversity2012,05

Internet as a means for salvation

Internet is not the salvation.

Internet is a tsunami. Either we float, or we drown.

Some are floating. Somehow. Others not.

“Internet is important for preservation.” If that means preservation in a museum sense, then...

Unesco seminar The Internet and the promotion of l inguistic diversity2012,05

A conversation in Facebook in Yucatec (interface in Basque)

Unesco seminar The Internet and the promotion of l inguistic diversity2012,05

Tuenti, a Spanish Facebook

Basque usage as an identity code. Not much more.

Unesco seminar The Internet and the promotion of l inguistic diversity2012,05

Twitter: social media

Twitter is more than a social network

It works more like a media site, the best newswire ever invented.

You can have personal interactions in Yucatec in Facebook. Are there any in Twitter?

Welsh or Basque are alive in Twitter. Is Breton alive? I doubt it.

Unesco seminar The Internet and the promotion of l inguistic diversity2012,05

Sociolinguistics in realtime

Twitter tells no lies.

We built Umap a tool that gets all tweets in Basque... it reached a limit. Also tried in Welsh, but couldn't afford to maintain it, sorry.

Unesco seminar The Internet and the promotion of l inguistic diversity2012,05

Twitter: newswire / meme generator

Twitter as a channel of links: main news source for its users. Killer of traditional media.

Do your sources produce content in your language?

Memes as indicators of cultural creativity, vitality

Are there any memes in your languages?

Unesco seminar The Internet and the promotion of l inguistic diversity2012,05

Example of a Basque meme

Dizerdit, daitort,dalovit...

Invented fancy Basque compact verbs, grammatically impossible...

You need a good command of the language (also of Spanish in some cases, to be true), and a sense of Twitter humor

Unesco seminar The Internet and the promotion of l inguistic diversity2012,05

Help building social interaction

Don't loose too much thinking on the menus, it's the food that matters. (But if you can get the menus, well, take the opportunity)

1,000 Basque intellectuals on Twitter. 100 followers each, that is 100,000 Basques tweeting

Tools that maximize Twitter information in a community sense

You may need a bunch of tech entrepreneurs

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Unesco seminar The Internet and the promotion of l inguistic diversity2012,05

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