Fwd: Brainstorming about cell phones

[steve at LINGUISTLIST.ORG]

Especially when texting directly to an online blog or social networking 
site...

-Steve


Steven Moran | Department of Linguistics | University of Washington


On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Gary Holton wrote:

> 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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> Gary Holton
> Associate Professor of Linguistics
> Alaska Native Language Center
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
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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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