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 Essay1. 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 nextSECTION I Theoretical Debates on Convergence and Minority Languages2. Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed: Minority Language Media studies and Communication for Social Change: Dialogue between Europe and Latin America3. László Vincze and Tom Moring: Towards Ethnolinguistic Identity Gratifications4. Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones: Minority Language Media, convergence culture and the indices of linguistic vitalitySECTION II Web 2.0, Social Networking Sites, and Minority Languages5. 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 sites6. Melanie Wagner: Luxembourgish on Facebook: Language ideologies and writing strategies7. Ian Johnson: Audience design and communication accommodation theory: use of twitter by Welsh - English biliterates8. Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska: Kashubian and modern media – the influence of new technologies on endangered languages9. Daniel Cunliffe and Rhodri ap Dyfrig: The Welsh language on YouTube: Initial observations10. Niall Mac Uidhilin: Learning communities mediated through technology: Pedagogic opportunities for Minority Languages11. 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 media12. Philippa Law: Experiences of audience interaction by BBC network radio producers: Implications for endangered language mediaSECTION III Media Convergence and Creative Industries13. Eithne O’Connell: Towards a template for a linguistic policy for minority language broadcasters14. Júlia Cordonet and David Forniès: Legislating the language of cinema: developments in Catalonia15. Douglas Chalmers, Mike Danson, Alison Lang, Lindsay Milligan: The contribution of BBC ALBA to Gaelic: a social and economic review16. Amaia Pavón and Aitor Zuberogoitia: Multilingual practice of the EITB Group and its TV provision for teenagers17. Ruth Lysaght: Tell a Song/Waiata Mai/ Abair Amhrán: Singing Out18. Bea Narbaiza, Josu Amezaga, Edorta Arana, Patxi Azpillaga: Languages: Obstacles and brand values in the age of media convergenceCONCLUDING REMARKS Mike Cormack: Towards an understanding of media impact on Minority Language use

This collection is explicative and multilayered...and will appeal beyond MLM studies to linguistic disciplines, although an appreciation of the situation of minority languages is presupposed in the range of studies presented. Insightful and accessible, it will interest established and emerging minoritylanguage researchers and activists who are concerned with the complex relationship between language and the new media environment.