Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Technology: The Web and World English

Technology: The Web and "World English"

While tracing the spread of English via Internet technology, this program considers the implications of such de facto linguistic hegemony in a world of high-tech haves and have-nots. In addition, the program examines the simultaneous standardization and fragmentation of English as it is acquired by non-native English-speakers in Africa and Asia. Interviews with specialists drawn from WorldCom and Sony subsidiary So-Net, the Library of Congress and the British Library, CNN and the BBC, and elsewhere provide a wide-angle perspective on digital content, language translation utilities, and initiatives to bridge the digital and linguistic divides. (52 minutes)

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Item#: BVL29425
Copyright date: ©2001
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-1840-0

Part of the Series : Beyond Babel: English, the Language Rising from the Masses


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