Great article, courtesy of the BBC News online magazine, called Tu and Twitter. It is the end for ‘Vous’ In French? highlights the social and political interplay of technology and language. Other languages such as Italian and Spanish are mentioned too. Of course, Twitter isn’t going to finish off French language formality or any social...
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The Story of #IMS211: Twitter Event
A shout-out for #ims211. How to describe? A Twitter conversation between fanbois, students, developers, journalists, and others on the subject of games, instigated by the good folks at the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies. The #ims211 Twitter hashtag originates from the analytical Game Studies course (MS211) offered there. Sean C. Duncan, Professor in Interactive...
Saint Patrick and Twitter
Just love this story on ReadWriteWeb: Using Twitter to Preserve Minority Languages. It’s about Indigenoustweets.com, launched on Saint Patrick’s Day by Professor Kevin Scannell of St. Louis University. The Prof uses his An Crúbadán (literally, in Irish “The Crawler”) web-crawling statistical software to identify which minority languages are being tweeted, and by whom. Check out...