Indigenous Voices on the Web: Folksonomies and Endangered Languages

Cocq, Coppélie

doi:10.5406/jamerfolk.128.509.0273

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“…There is evidence of its continuing relevance in current folkloristics (see for example , Cara 2003;Cocq 2015;Mould 2005;Cashman 2011;Gravot 2015;Savoleinen 2017). The spoken word, and its written derivatives in such online venues as Twitter posts, remains at the center of social life in the world's societies.…”

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confidence: 99%

Folklore and Sociolinguistics

McDowell

2018

Humanities

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Folklore and sociolinguistics exist in a symbiotic relationship; more than that, at points-in the ethnography of communication and in ethnopoetics, for example-they overlap and become indistinguishable. As part of a reaction to the formal rigor and social detachment of Chomsky's theoretical linguistics, sociolinguistics emerges in the mid-twentieth century to assess the role of language in social life. Folklorists join the cause and bring to it a commitment to in-depth ethnography and a longstanding engagement with artistic communication. In this essay, I trace key phases in the development of this interdisciplinary movement, revolutionary in its reorientation of language study to the messy but fascinating realm of speech usage. I offer the concept of performative efficacy, the notion that expressive culture performances have the capacity to shape attitude and action and thereby transform perceived realities, as a means of capturing the continuing promise of a sociolinguistically informed folkloristics.

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Folklore and Sociolinguistics

McDowell

2018

Humanities

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“…Movements such as the Arab spring (cf. Howard et al 2011;Khondker 2011), citizen journalism (Allan 2009;Hayes, Singer & Ceppos 2007), indigenous struggles against colonial power (Cocq 2015;Lindgren & Cocq 2016) or patients' attitudes in relation to health institutions (Johansson 2013;Goldstein 2015) are some examples of where digital tools and social media are used to raise awareness about alternative narratives. This view has also been applied to people with disabilities, whose voices are too often marginalized in relation to the majority society (cf.…”

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Negotiating Authority: Disability, Interactions and Power Relations on Twitter

Ineland¹,

Gelfgren²,

Cocq³

2019

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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Social media is often seen as an arena for negotiation of power, where marginalized voices can be given influence in the public debate. This study focuses the use of Twitter for discussions related to disabilities and disability policy in Sweden. The empirical material is gathered through the hashtag (#) "funkpol", the primary hashtag used to discuss such topics. Empirical data was gathered using a scripted Google spreadsheet. Over a period of 6 months, approximately 10.000 tweets were retrieved. Our findings show nine different categories of twitterers. According to patterns visible in the study, the most active twitterers -the private twitterers -reached out to the established power (advocacy organizations, politicians and media). However, these instances did not respond as much as they were addressed -at least not directly on Twitter. The article shows how private actors are active but not picked up in the public debate. Instead, established power structures prevailed.

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“…20 These assertions are supported by the folklorist Coppélie Cocq's observation that folksomonies created via Twitter hashtags by Sámi people indigenous to Sweden and Norway have opened 'new modes for the production of knowledge' that contribute to their 'continuity of expressive culture' and provide valuable metadata that are captured nowhere else. 21 This was also the experience of Wellen and Sieber, who found that preexisting metadata schemes could not adequately address their needs in developing an ontology dataset for cross-culturally interpreting Cree conceptualisations of hydrography in Canada, which prompted them to use Semantic Web techniques in realising this aim. 22 By contrast, the Europeana OWL ontology dataset has not been geared to interpret ideas and phenomena transculturally.…”

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Exploring the applicability of the Semantic Web for discovering and navigating Australian Indigenous knowledge resources

Corn

2019

Archives and Manuscripts

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Semantic Web ontology files can be flexibly programmed to delineate metadata relationships in machine-readable formats to create relational pathways for discovering resources both on and off the Internet. There is a global community of Semantic Web developers and users across a broad multi-disciplinary range of interests who create and share extensible open-source ontologies. In this article, the author will explore the functionality of Semantic Web techniques for representing the ontologies of relatedness through kinship that typically underpin Australian Indigenous knowledge systems, and investigate their potentials for meeting persistent demands among leading Australian Indigenous collections creators and users to be able to search and discover their hereditary knowledge resources in ways that reflect and reinforce their enduring cultural values, ways of knowing and rights-management concerns.

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Indigenous Voices on the Web: Folksonomies and Endangered Languages

Cited by 18 publications

References 25 publications

Folklore and Sociolinguistics

Folklore and Sociolinguistics

Negotiating Authority: Disability, Interactions and Power Relations on Twitter

Exploring the applicability of the Semantic Web for discovering and navigating Australian Indigenous knowledge resources

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