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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> Indigenous Languages and Technology
[mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Phillip E Cash
Cash<BR><B>Sent:</B> October-02-12 8:10 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> [ILAT] Indigenous Languages of
Mexico: Rescued, Alive, and Facing Challenges in Cyberspace (fwd
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<DIV></DIV>Monday, October 1, 2012<BR><BR><B>Indigenous Languages of Mexico:
Rescued, Alive, and Facing Challenges in Cyberspace</B><BR><BR>Año Nuevo
Seri<BR>All Rights Reserved © 2012 Memo Vasquez <BR><BR>Mexico City. - The
diverse indigenous languages of Mexico have been kept alive for generations
through oral tradition are now confronted by the challenges created at being
rescued and preserved alive in cyberspace - a loss of identity or of being
deviated and thus relegated into mere jargon or slang.<BR><BR>The internet -
unlike television or the printed press - is an attractive form of media for
indigenous persons.<BR><BR>"It provides the means to create a sense of identity
and can become a voice for one's culture," says Efe Carmen Gomez, a researcher
of the appropriation of technology by indigenous communities.<BR><BR>After more
than ten years of researching the relationship between emerging technologies and
native peoples of Mexico, Gomez recalls that the first websites to be developed
in indigenous communities were created to provide them with a sense of
"identity".<BR><BR>Access full article below: <BR><A
href="http://nativevox.blogspot.com/2012/10/indigenous-languages-of-mexico-rescued.html?spref=tw">http://nativevox.blogspot.com/2012/10/indigenous-languages-of-mexico-rescued.html?spref=tw</A><BR><BR>(via
Indigenous Tweets)<BR><A></A>
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