<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sorry forgot to copy this to the list.<BR><DIV><BR><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Linda Barwick <<A href="mailto:Linda.Barwick@arts.usyd.edu.au">Linda.Barwick@arts.usyd.edu.au</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">3 November 2007 11:44:31 AM</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Andrea Berez <<A href="mailto:andrea.berez@gmail.com">andrea.berez@gmail.com</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>Re: Brainstorming about cell phones</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> 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.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Linda</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 03/11/2007, at 8:37 AM, Andrea Berez wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN>Hello all,<BR><BR>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). <BR><BR>Any suggestions you have are welcome--no idea is too outrageous to mention!<BR><BR>Thanks in advance,<BR>Andrea<BR clear="all"><SPAN class="sg"><BR>-- <BR><BR>-----------------------------<BR>Andrea L. Berez<BR>PhD student, Dept. of Linguistics <BR>University of California, Santa Barbara<BR><A href="http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/%7Eaberez/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/</A> </SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>