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Rethinking language use in digital Africa
technology and communication in Sub-Saharan Africa
"This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. It offers a paradigm of language merging that provides a blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms"--
Introduction -- Multilingual Literacies and Technology in Africa: Towards Ubuntu Digital Translanguaging / Leketi Makalela -- Translanguaging in the Rwandan Social Media: New Meaning Making in a Changing Society / Epimaque Niyibizi, Cyprien Niyomugabo and Juliet Perumal -- Creating Translated Interfaces: The Representations of African Languages and Cultures in Digital Media / Elvis ResCue and G. Edzordzi Agbozo -- Mdocumentation: Combining New Technologies and Language Documentation to Promote Multilingualism in Nubian Heritage Language Learners of the Diaspora / Kirsty Rowan -- A Network of Anger and Hope: An Investigation of Communication on a Feminist Activist Facebook Website, The Network of Eritrean Women (RENEW) / Sarah Ogbay and Goodith White -- Identity, Language and Literacy in an African Digital Landscape / Bonny Norton -- Networked Poetics: WhatsApp Poetry Groups and Malawian Aesthetic Networks / Susanna Sacks -- Human-Agent Interaction: L1-mode Intelligent Software Agents Instructing Nigerian L2 Speakers of English During Assembly Tasks / Abdulmalik Yusuf Ofemile -- Conclusion.
edited by Leketi Makalela and Goodith White.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies
Bristol, UK ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, 2021.
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