Technology + Language Change Flashcards
(8 cards)
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Word structure + formation
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Loans; shifts; composites; shortenings; blends
* Word origin can reveal significant underlying power in culture.
* Language of technology reflects influence of USA (where most tech originates)
* Blur between traditional and loan words + semantic widening.
* Technology leading to cultural imperialism that privileges English over other languages?
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Linguistic recycling
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- Common for metaphorical images + idiomatic expression to fuel language of technology
- ‘Reboot’ only entirely new word created by technology.
- Creating new connotations e.g. ‘mouse’
3
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Telephones
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- 1890 - 1930: candlestick
- Late 1980s: caller ID
- Early 2000s: flip phones
- 2007: apple releases first iPhone
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- 1965: 1st email at MIT
- 1988: 1st email program released
- 1994: first case of business-related spam mail.
- 1998: 4 trillion emails, 107 billion letters
- 2002: 8 billion emails senate each day
- 2004: ‘lol’ added to OED
- 2007: gmail available for public usage
- Structural elements of ‘to’ + ‘from’ resemble traditional letters - usage in line of communicated eliminated.
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Blogs
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- 1994: first blog by Justin Hall (’Links.net’ - personal homepage)
- 1997: term ‘weblog’ coined by Jorn Burger
- 2002: first blog search engine (’Technorati’)
- 2003: TypePad (hosts blogs for BBC) + WordPress created
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Created by Kevin Systrm + Mike Krieger; owned by Facebook; launched in 2010.
* Originally single photo
* Portmanteau of ‘instant’, ‘camera’ + ‘telegram’
* 2019: 1 billion users
* Record message to convert to written discourse
* More frequent use of emojis
* Asterisk used for correction
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Online news
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- 1690s: Print newspapers
- 1970s: Teletext (news + information service in the form of text + graphics, transmitted using the spare capacity of existing television channels to televisions with appropriate receivers.)
- 1997: BBC news online launched Microfiche, now online archives.
- 2007: 20% of adults use the internet to access news
- 2007: Apple release iPhone
- 2012: 47% read news online
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2013: 55% read news online
Why a surge in online consumption? - Proliferation of smartphones + tablets
- High-speed internet access
- Apple-led app revolution
72% of 25-34 year-olds likely to read news online
8
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Snapchat
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- April 2011: Reggie Brown ⇒ ‘ephemeral’ messaging social media platform
- 2013: Snapkidz
- 2014: Videos can be sent
- 2015: 1 free replay
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2019: 190 million users
Fragmented (mimics nature of spoken discourse)
