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Jaime's Proposal
Digital Divide: When digital literacy clashes with politics
The emergence of Internet has vastly revolutionized peoples' lives, from the sociological up to the political aspects (Vidyasagar, D 2006) . My main interest is to better understand the effects of digital literacy on people living in countries where public access to information is conceived differently from the Western culture point of view (Dimitrova, D. V., and Beilock, R, 2005); one such example would be China with the attempt of the authorities to keep access to information controlled, better known as China's Great Firewall. I would specifically like to research the political empowerment digital literacy has on people who did not have previous access to information or the opportunity to raise a voice against the authorities, as well as the other side of the coin, the methods the authorities have been using to control the flow of information in said countries. On such example of methods or institutions that control the information flow such as in Internet stated by Vidyasagar D. is the ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Nations).
Works Cited:
Other Articles that would contribute to this topic:
Corrales, J., & Westhoff, F. (2006). Information technology adoption and political regimes. International Studies Quarterly, 50(4), 911-933.
Crenshaw, E. M., & Robison, K. K. (2006). Globalization and the digital divide: The roles of structural conduciveness and global connection in internet diffusion. Social Science Quarterly (Blackwell Publishing Limited), 87(1), 190-207.
Guillén, M. F., & Suárez, S. L. (2005). Explaining the global digital divide: Economic, political and sociological drivers of cross-national internet use. Social Forces, 84(2), 681-708.
Ali's Research Proposal:
Lost in Digital Translation - very nice title
Research perfomed in China analyzed the form of language used in Chat rooms or progams such as MSN or ICQ; they found that a new 'dialect' was used, what they called "Chat Language" (Li et al., 2006). This new language was "informal, anamolous and dynamic", and caused ambiguity and confusion with meanings and intentions (Li et al. 2006). In order to clear these confusions they have created a novel which links 'Chat Language' with its sister definitions in traditional chinese language(Li et. al, 2006). In english we find the same growing popularity and interest in 'Chat language'; in his article Google (2006), Raymond Gozzi Jr. examines how "to google" has become a common everyday english verb and cited in the Oxford English Dictionary(Gozzi Jr., 2006). In light of this research and as a result of my first hand experiences with MSN and email, I would like to explore how our language has had to modify and change in order to over come the absence of body signs and tone over mediums such as Email and Messenger systems. I like to delve into how the internet has impacted our language and how it is continuing to change and whether or not it is at all slowing in rate with inovations such as live video conferencing.
Gozzi Jr., Raymond. GOOGLE. ETC: A Review of General Semantics; Oct2006, Vol. 63, IV,444-445.
LI,WENJIE; WONG,KAM-FAI;XIA,YUNQING. Linguistic and Behavioural Studies of Chinese Chat. International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages; June 2006, Vol. 19,II, 133-152.
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