37.1821, Books: Digital Multilingualism and Platform Governance: Leung (2026)

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Date: 19-May-2026
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Digital Multilingualism and Platform Governance: Leung (2026)


Title: Digital Multilingualism and Platform Governance
Series Title: Elements in Forensic Linguistics
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/digital-multilingualism-and-platform-governance?format=HB&isbn=9781009862462

Author(s): Janny H. C. Leung

Hardback ISBN:  9781009862462 Pages:  86 Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009862462 Pages:  86 Price: Europe EURO 64.19
Hardback ISBN:  9781009862462 Pages:  86 Price: U.S. $ 77.00
Paperback ISBN:  9781009263139 Pages:  86 Price: U.K. £ 18.00
Paperback ISBN:  9781009263139 Pages:  86 Price: Europe EURO 21.01
Paperback ISBN:  9781009263139 Pages:  86 Price: U.S. $ 25.00

Abstract:

As custodians of global public discourse today, transnational tech
platforms govern who may speak, to whom, and how. While they have
helped document and revitalize minoritized languages and connect
diasporic communities, they also make language-related decisions that
can disproportionately disadvantage speakers of those languages. On
platforms like Facebook, non-English users navigate a linguistic
environment where content moderation is often severely under-resourced
compared to that available to English speakers. They may not receive
warnings about disinformation or disturbing content, may not be told
about what rules apply, and may have their content wrongly removed –
or violating content left untouched – because neither human moderators
nor automated systems can understand their language. This Element
examines forms of global linguistic justice that platforms create and
reproduce, highlighting a critical yet underexplored dimension of
structural inequality in contemporary platform governance. This title
is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Written In: English (eng)



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