Fwd: Brainstorming about cell phones

[Linda Barwick]

Sorry forgot to copy this to the list.

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> From: Linda Barwick <Linda.Barwick at arts.usyd.edu.au>
> Date: 3 November 2007 11:44:31 AM
> To: Andrea Berez <andrea.berez at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Brainstorming about cell phones
>
> This isn't really dissemination, but a friend of mine who is a  
> music psychologist told me about an experiment she ran recently  
> where she had a text message sent out at regular intervals that  
> prompted volunteers to note down whether they were listening to  
> music or imagining music at the time. This gave a statistically  
> significant sample of how much music-listening or -imagining was  
> prevalent in that group.
>
> You could adopt something similar for noting down language use.  
> Might be interesting to put together a picture of how often people  
> are actually using a given language in day-to-day life over a given  
> period.
>
> Linda
>
> On 03/11/2007, at 8:37 AM, Andrea Berez wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> In preparation for a talk at LSA, does anyone out there have some  
>> suggestions about how cell phones might be used as a means for the  
>> dissemination of language information? A colleague working in The  
>> Congo, where cell phones--and not the internet--are everyone's  
>> main link to technology, is wondering how the language activists  
>> in her community might tap into them as a maintenance/ 
>> revitalization resource (no pun intended).
>>
>> Any suggestions you have are welcome--no idea is too outrageous to  
>> mention!
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Andrea
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> -----------------------------
>> Andrea L. Berez
>> PhD student, Dept. of Linguistics
>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>> http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/
>

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