Social Media and Minority Languages

Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones is Senior Lecturer in Media and Creative Industries and Director of the Mercator Institute for Media, Languages and Culture at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University. She has been working in the field of Minority Language Media Studies for over twenty years and has published widely on matters of language and media. Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Communication at Universidad de La Sabana, and the director of the Audiovisual Culture research group. He has been involved in various Minority Language Media studies endeavours since he joined the Mercator Media Network in 2007.

Preface A note on the Mercator Network Introductory Essay



1. Donald R. Browne and Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed: Ethnic/Linguistic minority media: What their history reveals, how scholars have studied them, and what we might ask next



SECTION I Theoretical Debates on Convergence and Minority Languages



2. Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed: Minority Language Media studies and Communication for Social Change: Dialogue between Europe and Latin America



3. László Vincze and Tom Moring: Towards Ethnolinguistic Identity Gratifications



4. Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones: Minority Language Media, convergence culture and the indices of linguistic vitality



SECTION II Web 2.0, Social Networking Sites, and Minority Languages



5. Daniel Cunliffe, Delyth Morris and Cynog Prys: Investigating the differential use of Welsh in young speakers’ social networks: A comparison of communication in face-to-face settings, in electronic texts and on social networking sites



6. Melanie Wagner: Luxembourgish on Facebook: Language ideologies and writing strategies



7. Ian Johnson: Audience design and communication accommodation theory: use of twitter by Welsh - English biliterates



8. Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska: Kashubian and modern media – the influence of new technologies on endangered languages



9. Daniel Cunliffe and Rhodri ap Dyfrig: The Welsh language on YouTube: Initial observations



10. Niall Mac Uidhilin: Learning communities mediated through technology: Pedagogic opportunities for Minority Languages



11. Philippe Lacour, Any Freitas, Aurélien Bénel, Franck Eyraud, Diana Zambon: Enhancing linguistic diversity through collaborative translation: TraduXio, an open source platform for multilingual workflow management in media



12. Philippa Law: Experiences of audience interaction by BBC network radio producers: Implications for endangered language media



SECTION III Media Convergence and Creative Industries



13. Eithne O’Connell: Towards a template for a linguistic policy for minority language broadcasters



14. Júlia Cordonet and David Forniès: Legislating the language of cinema: developments in Catalonia



15. Douglas Chalmers, Mike Danson, Alison Lang, Lindsay Milligan: The contribution of BBC ALBA to Gaelic: a social and economic review



16. Amaia Pavón and Aitor Zuberogoitia: Multilingual practice of the EITB Group and its TV provision for teenagers



17. Ruth Lysaght: Tell a Song/Waiata Mai/ Abair Amhrán: Singing Out



18. Bea Narbaiza, Josu Amezaga, Edorta Arana, Patxi Azpillaga: Languages: Obstacles and brand values in the age of media convergence



CONCLUDING REMARKS Mike Cormack: Towards an understanding of media impact on Minority Language use