Fwd: Brainstorming about cell phones

[Gary Holton]

Andrea,

This comment is tangential to your question, but it should also be noted
that mobile phone text messages represent an emerging data type in many
endangered language communities. Collecting a database of text messages
can be fun for linguists and language workers, and encouraging people to
text in their native language may help to further language maintenance
efforts.

Gary


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> Hi,
>
> Why not look at developing learning communities thru the use of cell
> phones in your paper?  Cell phones could be useful in giving more
> opportunities to people to use their language(s) to communicate with each
> other. It seems that cell phones could provide a means for marginalised
> people to empower themselves by improving their opportunities for
> networking with each other.
>
> Mark Warschauer has written on the idea of the digital divide and
> e-learning and you might get some ideas from him.  He has published
> something for UNESCO about the digital divide.  This paper has something
> on how Hawaiian language programs have benefit from the use of new
> technologies to get speakers of Hawaiian who are spread out over numerous
> islands to interact by using ICT -
> http://www.gse.uci.edu/PDF/multipliers_1.pdf and
> http://www.gse.uci.edu/person/markw/revitalization.html
>
> Also, if you can get hold of a paper given at the IEEE conference in 2002,
> it might help you get other ideas (I've copied the web address and
> abstract below):
> "Mobile learning: cell phones and PDAs for education"
> (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=26602&arnumber=1186176&count=496&index=325)
>
> Houser, C.   Thornton, P.   Kluge, D.
> Kinjo Gakuin Univ., Japan;
>
> This paper appears in: Computers in Education, 2002. Proceedings.
> International Conference on
> Publication Date: 3-6 Dec. 2002
> On page(s): 1149- 1150 vol.2
> ISSN:
> ISBN: 0-7695-1509-6
> INSPEC Accession Number: 7679063
> Posted online: 2003-03-20 11:23:29.0
>
> Abstract
> The authors introduce m-learning - learning with mobile devices, such as
> cell phones and pocket computers. They review the hardware and research on
> m-learning, and discuss their future work with mobile foreign-language
> study.
>
> I hope this helps a little.
> Best wishes,
> Theresa
>
>
>>>> Linda Barwick <Linda.Barwick at arts.usyd.edu.au> 3/11/2007 11:45 am >>>
> Sorry forgot to copy this to the list.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> 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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