Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa : : Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa / / ed. by Goodith White, Leketi Makalela.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Edzordzi Agbozo, G.,; Makalela, Leketi,; Niyibizi, Epimaque,; Niyomugabo, Cyprien,; Norton, Bonny,; Ofemile, Abdulmalik Yusuf,; Ogbay, Sarah,; Perumal, Juliet,; Rescue, Elvis,; Rowan, Kirsty,; Sacks, Susanna,; White, Goodith,
• HerausgeberIn: Makalela, Leketi,; White, Goodith,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education ; 92
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Introduction --; Part 1: Multilingual Practices --; 1 Multilingual Literacies and Technology in Africa: Towards Ubuntu Digital Translanguaging --; 2 Translanguaging in the Rwandan Social Media: New Meaning Making in a Changing Society --; Part 2: Linguistic and Cultural Maintenance --; 3 Creating Translated Interfaces: The Represen tations of African Langua ges and Cultures in Digital Media --; 4 Mdocumentation: Combining New Technologies and Language Documentation to Promote Multilingualism in Nubian Heritage Language Learners of the Diaspora --; Part 3: The Effects of Communication Outside Africa --; 5 A Network of Anger and Hope: An Investigation of Communication on a Feminist Activist Facebook Website, the Network of Eritrean Women (RENEW) --; 6 Identity, Language and Literacy in an African Digital Landscape --; 7 Networked Poetics: WhatsApp Poetry Groups and Malawian Aesthetic Networks --; Part 4: Language Change --; 8 Human–Agent Interaction: L1-mode Intelligent Software Agents Instructing Nigerian L2 Speakers of English During Assembly Tasks --; Conclusion --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800412316; 9783110743357; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754063; 9783110753950; 9783110743333; 9783110746006
• DOI: 10.21832/9781800412316
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Goodith White, Leketi Makalela.

This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. It offers a paradigm of language merging that provides a blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.