PANEL 1: The Multilingual Internet
Panel Chairs: Susan Herring and Brenda Danet
 
Expanding on their collective work, including a special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, this panel invites papers with a specific focus on how the Internet impacts language choice and linguistic practices in traditionally non-English speaking cultural contexts. Of particular interest are situations that respond in various ways to the tension between global English dominance and local linguistic diversity, e.g., through use of English as an online lingua franca, the "localization" of global or regional linguistic influences, translation or code-switching between different languages, and strategic uses of the Internet to maintain and invigorate minority languages.

Professor Susan Herring, Information Science and Linguistics, Indiana University Bloomington
Professor Brenda Danet, Sociology & Communication, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Emerita); Anthropology, Yale University