<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="Arial" size="4">Announcement: Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub Wednesday 15th June 2016</font><br></p>

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<div><b>Topic: Social Media and Language Documentation</b></div><div><i>Leading the discussion: <span style="font-size:12.8px">Peter Schuelke, University of Hawaii</span></i></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div>There is great potential for language documentation and conservation through social media sites. The potential benefits include corpus building, community participation, and effect on language attitudes. While the benefits are many, ethical issues are raised including new challenges to consent and considerations towards anonymity. <br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>Social media is a largely untapped resource in the language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization fields. The goals of this discussion are to introduce a few examples of social media use in language documentation and conservation and address it's potential benefits and challenges.</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span></font></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Date:      Wednesday 15th June</span></p><span>

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Venue:     Function room (upstairs)</span></p>

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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Address: </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">272
Lygon St, Carlton VIC 3053</span></p><span>

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9347 7299</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>

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LIP is an occasional gathering of language activists
and linguists in Melbourne and is coordinated by the MLIP committee:
Ruth Singer, Stefan Schnell (Melbourne Uni) and Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan
Schlossberg, Alan Ray, Giordana Santosuosso, Jonathon Lum (Monash Uni)</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Contact Ruth Singer (University of Melbourne) with
any questions: </span><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:rsinger@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">rsinger@unimelb.edu.au</a></span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
You can receive these announcements by signing up to the RNLD mailing
list: </span><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://www.rnld.org/node/5" target="_blank">http://www.rnld.org/node/5</a></span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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