<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<br><br>Please note that the previous Linguistics in Pub announcement contained the incorrect date. It is actually to be held this coming Monday (20th June 2016), NOT today. All other details are correct, but the full, amended, announcement is repeated below.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Please accept our sincerest apologies for any confusion or inconvenience.</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:large">__________________________________</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:large"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:large">Announcement: Melbourne Linguistics in the </span><span class="" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:large">Pub</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:large"><b>Monday 20th June 2016</b></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Topic: Social Media and Language Documentation</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><i>Leading the discussion: <span style="font-size:12.8px">Peter Schuelke, University of Hawaii</span></i></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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" style="font-size:12.8px"><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Date:       <b>Monday 20th June, 2016</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Time:       6:00 - 8:00 pm<br>Venue:     Function room (upstairs)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b>University hotel</b></span></p><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><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Phone:   </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,13,171)">(03) 9347 7299</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">                </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.unihotel.com.au/" target="_blank">http://www.unihotel.com.au/</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> (menu available online)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><br>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><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><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 <span class="">RNLD</span> 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.<span class="">rnld</span>.org/node/5</a></span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Jonathan Schlossberg<br>PhD Candidate<br>ELDTA Linguistics Research Program<br>University of Newcastle<br><br></div></div>
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