New social media and new challenges for minority language policy’ a CCPR seminar on 21 May 2013
Published: 16 May 2013
The seminar in the Basque Fellowship series reflected on how both minority and majority languages media are adapting to rapid changes in the current digital multichannel environment, as well as to changes in audiences’ viewing and consumption patterns.
The seminar in the Basque Fellowship series reflected on how both minority and majority languages media are adapting to rapid changes in the current digital multichannel environment, as well as to changes in audiences’ viewing and consumption patterns. With a focus on Gaelic, and attendance by leading academic experts and communicators from Scotland, Ireland, and the Basque Country, the debate centred on the most salient sociolinguistic features of the new communication landscape and the place language policy has in this new media context.
Further information from the seminar can be found below:
Presentation by Dr Agurtzane Elordui, Basque Research Fellow can be viewed here.
Law, Minority Languages and the Internet by Professor Robert Dunbar, University of Highlands and Islands
Gaelic and new media by Dr Mike Cormack, University of Highlands and Islands
Some policy challenges for Irish in the performance era by Dr Helen Kelly-Holmes, University of Limerick
First published: 16 May 2013
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