Measuring linguistic diversity on the Internet
Subtitle: a collection of papers
By: by John Paolillo [and others] ; edited with an introduction by UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Contributors: Unesco; UNESCO Institute for Statistics; World Summit on the Information Society
Publisher: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Language and languages; Internet; Social aspects; Information society
Other titles: World Summit on the Information Society :
Description: This publication was produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) in preparation for the World Summit on the Information Society (16-18 November 2005) in Tunisia. UNESCO is calling for new ways to monitor information societies which go beyond a techno-centric view to consider the social impact of the Internet. It presents key findings of research initiatives. While debating the predominance of English, the authors all stress that computers were originally designed with English in mind and therefore have inherent technological biases.
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