Cairo talk-1-eb-v06-mar11
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CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Jonathan Rashad http://www.flickr.com/photos/drumzo/6979348035/
AUC/EG Ministry of CultureHouse of Translation Lectures
Ed Bice, MeedanZamalek, Cairo March 12, 2013
social media translation
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social media translation
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theory and practicewords and linkstext and context
social and societalhacks and fails
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language
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texts
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 http://art.thewalters.org/detail/84831/battle-between-the-ottoman-and-hungarian-armies/82162/
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ARPANET 1979
networks
CC BY-NC2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannyman
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LOLcats
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panda
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the man behind
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remix
http://www.anotherafrica.net/wp/wp-content/gallery/egypt-graffiti/aa_egypt_sadpanda_02.jpg Tagged by Sad Panda
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remix
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tahrir
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/rouelshimi/5410533281
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social
82%6%
2007 2011SOURCE: Jose Van Dijk 2012, The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical
History of Social Media
social internet users as a % of total internet users
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social
SOURCE: PsychologyDegree.net Creative Commons CCBY
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social
SOURCE: PsychologyDegree.net Creative Commons CCBY
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theory
© Editions Montparnasse from http://funnyscholarphotos.tumblr.com
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humility
1 author 6,900 languages
1 : 6,900 : 7,102,659,057
7,102,659,057 people
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadhorse
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meaning
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changes
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/elhamalawy/6279589637 Hossam el-Hamalawy
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http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW399.jpg
hospitality
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poetry
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(cake)
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words?
http://services.eng.uts.edu.au/userpages/kumbes/public_html/ra/sms/index_files/SMS-Speak.jpg
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circuits
http://services.eng.uts.edu.au/userpages/kumbes/public_html/ra/sms/index_files/SMS-Speak.jpgCC-2.0 BY http://creativity103.com
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hypertext
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hypertext
http://www.xmcl.org/css/images/new-html.jpg
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#blackout
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auto-complete
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algorithms
http://www.vodahost.com/web-hosting-google-algorithm-change.html/
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Josheb Policarpio Creative Commons License: by http://vimeo.com/12095882
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new text
http://wikidashboard.appspot.com/enwiki/wiki/Climate_change#
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new text
http://piratepad.net/4BHO1W6B5q
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the conversational text
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data as text
CC BY 2.0 DaveBleasdale on Flickr.com/photos/sidelong
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#hashtag
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translators
1. The translator as a curator
2. The translator as an active and addressable participant
3. Translation as itself as a necessarily social practice.
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(hacks)
CC BY-NC Rain Rabbit http://www.flickr.com/photos/37996583811@N01/
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#SidiBouzid
The story of Bouazizi and the protests and clashes which followed his self-immolation were largely overlooked by international media, right up until just before Ben Ali fell
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#SidiBouzid
Much of the news emerging from Tunisia was on Twitter and in French and Arabic
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curated.by
Allowed users to curate tweets and add them to “bundles”
Allowed tweets to be curated and embedded
Curation could be done as an individual or collaboratively as part of a team
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curated.by
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#topic tag #translation tag
Original link from tweet
User who posted original tweet
link to curated.by bundle
curated.by
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curated.by
Needed a simple way to indicate a tweet was a translation so we used: #AREN (later #Ar2En) & #ENAR (later #En2Ar)
This let people know we were translating AND created a useful feed of translated content (as a #hashtag)
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#jan25After piloting with #SidiBouzid, we began to work as a team translating #Jan25When internet was cut in Egypt, users elsewhere in the world were curating & translating the small # of tweets able to get through, posting them back into the #Jan25 stream
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ProsEasy to build visibility of translation project and simple to get involved
High-impact: Translated Tweets went back into the #Jan25 feed people around the world were watching
Clear attribution: clear link between original and translated tweet, original user notified via @mention
1700 tweets curated & 30-50 translators contributing
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ConsDifficult to translate in fewer than 140 characters, especially using the # (important)
We curated and translated in #Jan25 so much content we broke Curated.By
Several users reported that Curated.By was blocked in Tunisia during #SidiBouzid (this only stopped them joining translation - Twitter was still functional)
Curated.by folded and sent us JSON files with empty ‘comment’ / translation fields = lost data
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Curated.Bye
Lesson: look after your own translation data
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Speak2Tweet
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Speak2Tweet
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Speak2Tweet
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Speak2Tweet
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Speak2Tweet
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Speak2Tweet
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Speak2Tweet
+ + +
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social to societal
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شكرا
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