By Michel Ge This post was developed as part of the spring 2022 Columbia University course “Global Language Justice in the Digital Sphere: Theory and Practice” taught by Isabelle Zaugg, PhD. This post is followed by 2) “Hanzi Characters and Unicode” and 3) “Hanzi Input Methods.” “A language is a dialect with an army and navy.” –…
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Recommendations from the Symposium on Global Justice for Indigenous Languages (April 2018)
Document of Recommendations
Global Justice for Indigenous Languages (III of IV)
During the final hour of our Global Justice for Indigenous Languages Symposium, I was keeping track of the attendees who had raised their hand to ask a question or make a comment and making sure that they had the microphone—after all, one of the issues that kept coming up that day was the unethical practices…
Language Preservation through Character Encoding
What is Unicode? And how can it help in the quest to preserve the endangered languages of the world? Before February 15, 2018, I had a partial answer to the first of these two questions. I had heard the name “Unicode” and had a vague idea of what it was. But I had no idea…
Graphic Design Is My Passion, and Other Unassuming Gateways to Global Language Justice (Part I of II)
I am not a visual artist by training; even the term “autodidact” would be a bit of a stretch when applied to me. I am, however, a product of the digital age, which means that I’ve been exposed to digital art alongside more concrete fine arts since childhood. From Microsoft Paint to online art-sharing platforms…
Explorations in Global Language Justice 