Social Media and Linguistic Affirmation in Central Africa.
International audience The success of social media among Africans and African diasporas have led to the creation of " Facebook groups " identified as ethnic groups. These networks can gather, among the five groups included in this study, up to 8,000 participants each.These spaces of commun...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-01245420v1 2023-05-15T18:45:29+02:00 Social Media and Linguistic Affirmation in Central Africa. Social Media and Linguistic Affirmation in Central Africa. : Between Cultural Objectification and Cultural Mutation Rivron, Vassili Management of dynamic networks and services (MADYNES) Inria Nancy - Grand Est Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Department of Networks, Systems and Services (LORIA - NSS) Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL) UNESCO / IFAP Yakutsk, Russia 2014-06-30 https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01245420 https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01245420/document https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01245420/file/RIVRON_Conf.Yakustk%3AUNESCO.pdf en eng HAL CCSD Interregional Library Cooperation Centre (Moscow) hal-01245420 https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01245420 https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01245420/document https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01245420/file/RIVRON_Conf.Yakustk%3AUNESCO.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01245420 Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace, UNESCO / IFAP, Jun 2014, Yakutsk, Russia http://www.ifapcom.ru Facebook social media ethnicity writing cultural heritage diasporas Central Africa Cameroon Gabon Equatorial Guinea [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology [SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics [SHS.MUSIQ]Humanities and Social Sciences/Musicology and performing arts info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Conference papers 2014 ftccsdartic 2021-10-17T01:20:58Z International audience The success of social media among Africans and African diasporas have led to the creation of " Facebook groups " identified as ethnic groups. These networks can gather, among the five groups included in this study, up to 8,000 participants each.These spaces of community exchanges allow interesting observations on the preservation of linguistic diversity in the era of digital globalization, and on the mutations of ethnicity. On one hand, we are witnessing the " spontaneous " encoding of languages that were not usually written, contributing to their current writing use, to the transmission of this competence and literary heritage, to its unification and homogenization. On the other hand, these new linguistic registers cause profound changes in the status of these languages and in the organization of the associated cultural groups: the creation of a public space (which partially excludes other national languages) where diaspora members play a central role; the weaving of supra-national links with former parent groups in neighboring countries (reinvestment of neglected ethnonyms, rewriting of genealogies, reaffirmation of unifying origin myths);the projects of physical meetings, publishing policies, cultural festivals, supra-national political parties… Conference Object Yakutsk Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Yakutsk |
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Facebook social media ethnicity writing cultural heritage diasporas Central Africa Cameroon Gabon Equatorial Guinea [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology [SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics [SHS.MUSIQ]Humanities and Social Sciences/Musicology and performing arts Rivron, Vassili Social Media and Linguistic Affirmation in Central Africa. |
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International audience The success of social media among Africans and African diasporas have led to the creation of " Facebook groups " identified as ethnic groups. These networks can gather, among the five groups included in this study, up to 8,000 participants each.These spaces of community exchanges allow interesting observations on the preservation of linguistic diversity in the era of digital globalization, and on the mutations of ethnicity. On one hand, we are witnessing the " spontaneous " encoding of languages that were not usually written, contributing to their current writing use, to the transmission of this competence and literary heritage, to its unification and homogenization. On the other hand, these new linguistic registers cause profound changes in the status of these languages and in the organization of the associated cultural groups: the creation of a public space (which partially excludes other national languages) where diaspora members play a central role; the weaving of supra-national links with former parent groups in neighboring countries (reinvestment of neglected ethnonyms, rewriting of genealogies, reaffirmation of unifying origin myths);the projects of physical meetings, publishing policies, cultural festivals, supra-national political parties… |
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Management of dynamic networks and services (MADYNES) Inria Nancy - Grand Est Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Department of Networks, Systems and Services (LORIA - NSS) Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL) UNESCO / IFAP |
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Social Media and Linguistic Affirmation in Central Africa. |
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Social Media and Linguistic Affirmation in Central Africa. |
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Social Media and Linguistic Affirmation in Central Africa. |
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Social Media and Linguistic Affirmation in Central Africa. |
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Social Media and Linguistic Affirmation in Central Africa. |
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social media and linguistic affirmation in central africa. |
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Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01245420 Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace, UNESCO / IFAP, Jun 2014, Yakutsk, Russia http://www.ifapcom.ru |
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