E-grāmata: Social Media and Minority Languages: Convergence and the Creative Industries

This collection is explicative and multilayered...and will appeal beyond MLM studies to linguistic disciplines, although an appreciation of the situation of minority languages is presupposed in the range of studies presented. Insightful and accessible, it will interest established and emerging minoritylanguage researchers and activists who are concerned with the complex relationship between language and the new media environment. -- Sarah McMonagle, University of Hamburg, Germany * Language Policy (2015) 14:289291 * The importance of the internet in efforts to promote minority languages is often asserted but still too poorly understood. This excellent collection is a major step in addressing this gap. Providing a rich mix of theoretical material and finely-grained case studies, it deepens our understanding of the complex relationship between social media and other media and policy and planning for minority languages. * Robert Dunbar, the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland, UK * The book will be very useful to applied linguists and sociolinguists, students and scholars alike, interested in the role of todays multilingual, multi-platform media in minority and Indigenous language communities; to media specialists in academia and in the media industry; and to anyone interested in examining the role of digital age media in maintaining language diversity. * Lida Cope, East Carolina University, USA on LINGUIST List, Mon Jan 06 2014 (25.7) *