TY - JOUR
AU1 - McMonagle, Sarah
AB - Lang Policy (2015) 14:289–291 DOI 10.1007/s10993-013-9306-7 BOOK REVIEW Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones and Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed (eds): Social Media and Minority Languages: Convergence and the Creative Industries Multilingual Matters, Bristol, 2013, xxii + 267 pp, Hb £99.95, ISBN 978-1-84769-904-6 Sarah McMonagle Received: 22 November 2013 / Accepted: 25 November 2013 / Published online: 3 December 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Communication has radically altered with the ubiquity of the semantic web in contemporary life. Indeed, the preface to this collection notes that this is ‘a tired platitude’ (p. xi). Yet although increasing attention is paid to language use on the interactive internet, there is still a considerable gap in understanding how such phenomena might be adequately examined and evaluated. Just as minority languages and their speakers are faced with both opportunities and challenges in the converged media environment, so too are Minority Language Media (MLM) scholars. This timely collection brings together a number of prominent academics in MLM studies to present theoretical and practical aspects of this developing field. In their introduction, Browne and Uribe-Jongbloed summarise ethnic/linguistic minority media development across the globe and the attendant scholarly research. Most interesting for the collection at hand, they show that ‘convergence’ 
TI - Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones and Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed (eds): Social Media and Minority Languages: Convergence and the Creative Industries
JF - Language Policy
DO - 10.1007/s10993-013-9306-7
DA - 2013-12-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/elin-haf-gruffydd-jones-and-enrique-uribe-jongbloed-eds-social-media-pmdzitfX0Z
SP - 289
EP - 291
VL - 14
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -