Constructing Glocal Identities Through Multilingual Writing Practices on Flickr.com®

Lee, Carmen K.M.; Barton, Dávid

doi:10.1080/19313152.2011.541331

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“…Multilingual surfaces emerge when such adjacent units "speak", or are cast in, different languages or dialects as a result of different purposes, audiences, or production processes. Consider flickr pages, for example, where headlines, banners tags, and comments are not necessarily in the same language (Lee and Barton 2011). Consider media-sharing sites, where the language of posted items is often different from that of comments, and social network profile pages, where different "friends" may contribute wall posts in different languages.…”

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27. Code-switching in computer-mediated communication

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2013

Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication

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27. Code-switching in computer-mediated communication

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Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication

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“…For example, Fung and Carter () investigated the emergence of a hybrid spoken‐written variety of English in online interactions of Hong Kong university students. From a glocalization perspective, Lee and Barton () examined how members of globalized social media like Flickr negotiate language choices in accordance with the global, local, or glocal identities they wish to project to their imagined audience. Furthermore, Koutsogiannis and Mitsikopoulou (, p. 143) explored the glocal at a more language‐ideological level; popular discourses about English and its impact on digital literacy in local (as in Greek) contexts take at times a glocal position acknowledging the ‘dynamic negotiation between the global and the local, with the local appropriating elements of the global that it finds useful, at the same time employing strategies to retain its identity’.…”

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The weirding of English, trans‐scripting, and humour in digital communication

Spilioti

2019

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This article examines local appropriations of English‐related forms in digital communication, especially (re)appropriations that play with and modify significantly what we conventionally recognize as English (‘weird English’; Ch'ien, 2005). It investigates a case of trans‐scripting where English‐related forms are respelled with Greek characters in a series of memes and YouTube comments shared among primarily Greek‐speaking Internet users. Drawing on the notions of indexicality and enregisterment, it analyses the global and/or local orientations of such humorous acts of respelling, their indexical values in online participatory formats and their potential to function as register alerts that point to particular voices and ideological positions.

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“…Turning to the initial study reported here, data from a study of the practices of 30 multilingual Flickr users (Lee & Barton, 2011) was reanalysed with a focus on tags and tagging and provides users' views of tagging (as reported in Barton, 2015a). Firstly, people were emphatic that they use different sites for different purposes: Flickr was often used to display and to document, and for the photos to have a lasting presence.…”

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The roles of tagging in the online curation of photographs

Barton

2018

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This paper explores the variety of uses people make of the tagging feature on the photo-sharing site Flickr. The site developers intended uses are primarily to build a taxonomy to make the images on the site easily searchable. Data from examples of Flickr tags and interviews with selected users reveal that some tagging fits with this aim, whilst other uses challenge and subvert the intended uses. Tagging is used to do at least the following: identifying existing information in a photo; adding relevant new information; expressing affective stance towards the images; addressing specific audiences; making unrelated 'asides'; and for creative play.The discussion is then broadened by examining a dispute between Flickr and its users about changes being made to the site: this act as a 'telling case' (Mitchell, 1984) as people articulate what the site enables them to do and what it hinders. The dispute generated a thread of more than 29,000 comments, making a corpus of 1,774,401 words. Using corpus linguistics tools the paper demonstrates how users contribute to curating this site, including their uses of tagging. Steps involved in curating the site are identified, including a focus on verbs of curation. Overall, the paper contributes to the analysis of a set of 'new' literacy practices and to understanding digital curation. The methods of the two studies reported here productively combine detailed methods of qualitative research with the breadth of quantitative analysis.

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Constructing Glocal Identities Through Multilingual Writing Practices on Flickr.com®

Cited by 52 publications

References 29 publications

27. Code-switching in computer-mediated communication

27. Code-switching in computer-mediated communication

The weirding of English, trans‐scripting, and humour in digital communication

The roles of tagging in the online curation of photographs

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