Description:
This book includes case studies, theoretical debates, international comparisons on minority languages, and presents a research agenda for the development of Minority Language Media studies. It addresses the challenges in multi-platform, mobile communication environments, focusing on the pitfalls and opportunities brought about by social media.
Brief description:
Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones is Senior Lecturer in Media and Creative Industries and Director of the Mercator Institute for Media, Languages and Culture at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University. She has been working in the field of Minority Language Media Studies for over twenty years and has published widely on matters of language and media.
Review Quotes:
This collection is explicative and multilayered...and will appeal beyond MLM studies to linguistic disciplines, although an appreciation of the situation of minority languages is presupposed in the range of studies presented. Insightful and accessible, it will interest established and emerging minoritylanguage researchers and activists who are concerned with the complex relationship between language and the new media environment.