Evolution of Digital Media
What year did the internet shift from being used for the production and control of material goods to now controlling information
1990
This movement in the early 2010s used social media to mobilize political activism in several Arab countries.
Arab Spring
This term describes the mixing of languages in digital communication, such as switching between Arabic and English within a single message.
code switching
Bishr (2007) found that:
A. Arabic is no longer the language of Arab identity
B. Arabic is the language of Arab identity, but with permeating Western influences
C. Arabic is the language of Arab identity
A. Arabic is no longer the language of Arab identity
Digital media helps maintain smaller languages, like _________ and _________.
Berber and Kurdish
Computer and technology-based education relied heavily on which language?
English
In a study of 250 Egyptian private schools, this language was the primary medium of instruction, with Arabic only taught as a curricular subject.
English
This term refers to the use of colloquial Arabic in English letters and numbers, popular among Arab youth online.
Arabizi
Younger generations shift away from/defy a linguistic norm set by an older generation by using new linguistic forms.
Non-conformity principle
What language was most of the anti-Egyptian rhetoric in Wilson and Dunn's study?
Bonus: what social media platforms were they examining?
English on Facebook and Twitter
The increased use of digital media has blurred the boundaries between these two types of Arabic, traditionally kept separate for formal and informal contexts.
Standard Arabic and colloquial Arabic
The increased amount of expats and international business in this region in the Arab World has contributed to the shift to using English in digital spaces and during daily face to face interactions
The Gulf Region
part of code switching that leads to the emergence of an international code where terms no longer have markers of a specific language
(thanks, lol, hi, oui, yo, bye)
code weaving
Strongly connected social networks tend to be resistant to linguistic innovations and change, whereas weakly connected networks are more open to linguistic change.
Social network theory
Lebanese bloggers use a mix of which 3 languages?
Arabic, English, and French