CHID 496 C: Focus Groups

This Focus Group centers on the intersection of linguistic identity and digital technologies. Together we will explore how artists and activists use digital media as an intentional space for creative engagement with minority languages – languages which are spoken by a minority population in a given region or culture. How do the languages we speak shape our experience of the internet, online discourse, and the digital age? How are creators developing new possibilities for language activism in digital spaces? What does it mean to speak a “minority” language? Weekly readings will include a range of academic articles, artist statements, podcasts, and short films that engage with works in indigenous, constructed, endangered, reclaimed/revived, and other “minor” languages. Themes include alternative futurisms, sociolinguistics, and postcolonial praxis.