“Join Our Community of Translators”: Language Ideologies and/in Facebook

The Language of Social Media

“…The data considered here form part of a wider project on the translation of Facebook (Lenihan, 2011) and were gathered using virtual ethnographic methods. Virtual ethnography, developed by Hine (2000), 'transfers the ethnographic tradition of the researcher as embodied research instrument to the social spaces of the internet' (Hine, 2008, p. 257).…”

“…A number of aspects of the design of the Translations app promote and foster the development of a community of translators using the app and also, a sub-community of senior translators within that language community (Lenihan, 2011). The primary function of the homepage of the Translations app is to demonstrate the role the community of translators are playing in the translation process.…”

Perspectives on Language Sustainability in a Performance Era: Discourses, Policies, and Practices in a Digital and Social Media Campaign to Revitalise Irish

“…Kelly-Holmes 2010 in relation to YouTube) and more permanent communities (e.g. on Facebook, see Lenihan 2011Lenihan , 2013) using Irish to varying degrees. Walsh (2011) asserts that there is a "proliferation of Irish language blogs and websites", and this new phenomenon has been termed "Gaeltacht 2.0", the "Virtual hyper-Gaeltacht" (Ó Conchubhair 2008) and "cyber-Gaeltacht" (Delap 2008).…”

Way better than the original!! Music video covers and language revitalisation

“…The rapid development of the social media has opened up new spaces and genres for minoritised languages (Deumert, 2014;Jones & Uribe-Jongbloed, 2013;KellyHolmes, 2011;Lenihan, 2011;Pietikäinen & Dlaske, 2013). One such genre is music video covers, which make today a vital constituent of video sharing websites, such as YouTube.…”