Catalan on the Internet and the .ct and .cat campaigns

Atkinson, David

doi:10.1075/jlp.5.2.06atk

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“…Focal areas have been, for instance, multilingualism and commercial language practices on the Internet (Kelly-Holmes 2006a), code choice and code switching (Siebenhaar 2006), codes and identities (Androutsopoulos 2006), citizenship categorisation (Lane 2009), bilingual gaming and fan fiction activities (Leppänen and Piirainen-Marsh 2008), accent policing (Blommaert 2008), mediaspace complexity (Androutsopoulos 2009), multilingually oriented online services such as intelligent search engines (Wong et al 2006) and discussion fora (Wodak and Wright 2006), as well as case studies of specific minority languages such as Basque, Irish, Sami (Kelly-Holmes 2006b, Kelly-Holmes et al 2009) and Catalan (Atkinson 2006). The present study concentrates in particular on user-generated knowledge production and dissemination.…”

Section: Web 20 and The Globalisation Controversymentioning

confidence: 98%

“What an un-wiki way of doing things”

Ensslin

2011

JLP

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Wikipedia defines itself as "the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the internet", thus featuring an explicit language policy in its mission statement. Bearing in mind that the site has become the most popular source of encyclopaedic information online, its significance for public encounters with multilingualism should not be underestimated. This article offers a critical and multimodal discourse analytical approach to Wikipedia's explicit and implicit multilingual policies and practices. I examine, under "explicit metalinguistic practice" (Woolard 1998), public disclaimers and exemplary user practice and talk on the "Multilingual Coordination" entry. Under "implicit metapragmatics", I shall offer a multimodal analysis of Wikipedia's multilingualism-oriented interface design; the corporate logo and its paratextual meta-commentary on a number of linguistic and journalistic websites; and a code-critical reading of Wikipedia's "Babel" user language templates. My observations are discussed against the backdrop of postcolonialist theories on the role of English as lingua franca of the information age.

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Section: Web 20 and The Globalisation Controversymentioning

confidence: 98%

“What an un-wiki way of doing things”

Ensslin

2011

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“…However, some ccTLDs have been purposively dissociated with the countries they are supposed to signify, for example .tv is being advertised as a domain for television-related rather than Tuvalu-based websites (Hrynyshyn 2008). More importantly, DNS has undergone crucial redesigns, which resulted in the introduction of new sub and supranational TLDs such as .cat for Catalonia (Atkinson 2006), .asia (Ng 2013) and .eu for European Union (Zowislo-Grünewald and Beitzinger 2008). Additionally, in 2014, ICANN started launching new gTLDs chosen in a bottom-up application process ( http://newgtlds.icann.org/ ).…”

Section: To What Extent and How Are Nations And Nationalisms Being Rementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stateless nations also fight for their recognition in the DNS. One example could be the successful campaign of Catalonians who were granted the .cat TLD (Atkinson 2006). Similar though less successful campaigns include the dotCYM campaign for the recognition of the Welsh online community (Honeycutt 2008) and the dotKurd.org campaign, advocating for 'the identity of Kurds on world wide web' (www.dotKurd.org; the campaigners managed to recently register the .krd domain as a new gTLD).…”

Section: What Kind Of Nations and Nationalisms Are Being Reproduced Omentioning

confidence: 99%

Banal Nationalism in the Internet Age: Rethinking the Relationship Between Nations, Nationalisms and the Media

Szulc

2017

Everyday Nationhood

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Rethinking the Relationship Between Nations, Nationalisms and the Media Classic authors in nations and nationalisms studies recognize traditional media as crucial for the construction of nations and spread of nationalisms. Anderson (1983), for example, insists on the importance of press capitalism, particularly the simultaneity of reading national newspapers, for the creation of a national consciousness. Gellner (1983, p. 127), in turn, focuses on media technologies and points out that 'it is the media themselves, the pervasiveness and importance of abstract, centralised one to many communication, which itself automatically engenders the core idea of nationalism quite irrespective of what in particular is being put into the specific messages transmitted'. He clarifies that those who can understand the language and style of the message transmitted are included in a particular (national) community and are distinguished from those who cannot understand the message. Conversely, Hobsbawm (1990, p. 142) argues that the content of media messages does matter and explains that the media manage to break down the division between the public and the private, or the national and the local, by making 'what were in effect national symbols part of the life of every individual'. The latter argument is also echoed in Billig's (1995) concept of banal nationalism, which refers to subtle, unconscious and unnoticed reproductions of both individual nations and the world as a world of nations. Even though Billig does not devote much space in his book to scrutinize the relationship between nations, nationalisms and the media, he does implicitly recognize the key role of the media in reproducing banal nationalism. The core part of his analysis is based on a one-day survey of 10 British newspapers, both tabloids and broadsheets, sampled on one not particularly eventful day of 28 June 1993 (Billig 1995, pp. 109-111). In the analysis, he shows how the newspapers unwittingly reproduce the world as a world of nations, for example in the categorization of news items into 'Home' and 'Foreign', as well as casually adopt national references, for example in the use of country maps and deictic words such as 'we', 'here' and 'the' (as in 'the nation'). Additionally, Billig more explicitly acknowledges the role of the press, and traditional media in general, as one

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“…Examples include the campaign run by puntCAT to establish a .cat TLD for the Catalan language and culture and the campaign run by dotCYM to establish a .cym TLD for the Welsh language and Culture. In September 2005, and as the result of a long campaign by puntCat activists, ICANN approved the first top-level domain to be dedicated to a particular language and culture when it registered the .cat sponsored TLD name for the Catalan community (Atkinson, 2006). According to Gerrand (2006) it came into being only after considerable political wrangling within Spain, Catalonia and the ICANN.…”

Section: The Case For a Tld For Walesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The .cat g-TLD was established in 2005 with the support of the Spanish Government and partly on the basis that the linguistic population that spoke Catalan, and might therefore use the .cat TLD, was over one million world wide. Equally on the basis that the Catalan language and culture was not addressed by a single Spainish .sp cc-TLD (Atkinson, 2006;Jobins, 2006).…”

Section: Top Level Domain Namesmentioning

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The Case for a TLD for Wales

Madoc-Jones¹

2008

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This article explores the rationales for creating specific top level domain (TLD) names to support minority languages and cultures, focussing specifically on the case for a TLD .cy or .cym for Wales. Some background information on domain names and Wales and the Welsh language is provided. Following on from this, the way identity may be constructed is explored and the importance of TLD's in terms of enabling individuals to perform their identity is highlighted. The issues that arise with using the current .uk TLD in Wales is explored. Finally the rationale for a .cym TLD for Wales as opposed to any other is considered.

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Catalan on the Internet and the .ct and .cat campaigns

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

“What an un-wiki way of doing things”

“What an un-wiki way of doing things”

Banal Nationalism in the Internet Age: Rethinking the Relationship Between Nations, Nationalisms and the Media

The Case for a TLD for Wales

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