Digital Divide: Low German and other Minority Languages

Digital libraries and minority languages

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Low-income Minority Seniors’ Enrollment in a Cybercafé: Psychological Barriers to Crossing the Digital Divide

A Snowball Sampling Approach for Studying Digital Minority Languages

This thesis discusses the methods used to assess the linguistic diversity of the internet. I critique the current literature on internet language diversity, arguing that existing methods-which aggregate textual data from many languages, to the exclusion of video and audio data-are unsuited to the study of minority languages. To address these shortcomings, I propose a snowball sampling approach ...

Digital Divide, Social Divide, Paradigmatic Divide

The digital divide is nothing else than the reflection of the social divide in the digital world. The use of ICT for human development does offer opportunities to reduce the social divide for individual beings or communities; yet there exists a series of obstacles to overcome. The very existence of an infrastructure for connectivity is only the first obstacle, although it often receives an excl...

Fostering digital representation of EU regional and minority languages: the Digital Language Diversity Project

Poor digital representation of minority languages further prevents their usability on digital media and devices. The Digital Language Diversity Project, a three-year project funded under the Erasmus+ programme, aims at addressing the problem of low digital representation of EU regional and minority languages by giving their speakers the intellectual an practical skills to create, share, and reu...