LIGN 177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Digital Divide, Economic Globalization
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Perceptions of multilingualism in media: new york times example, the enormous evils of bilingualism. Digital divide: global divide: developing countries vs. industrialized countries, national divide: elites in urban vs. rural peripheries in many countries, societal divide: young vs. old, linguistic divide: english and other dominant languages vs. the rest. Inequity of information: google recognizes 30 european languages, only one african language and no indigenous american or pacific languages. Whether it is translating and bringing foreign concepts into different language editions on wikipedia or moving breaking local news stories to new language communities and different geographies, they have the power to be influential. 2: wireless phones are leapfrogging" poor infrastructure (can be powered by solar or car batteries, africa is the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world. In the five years between 2003 and 2008, the number of mobile phone.
