1 Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices
Ethan Zuckerman explains how we often choose to only see things on social media that we have similar interests to or people that we relate with. When talking about the early stages of technology and the internet he says'' the prediction was that the internet was going to be an incredibly powerful force to smooth out cultural differences '' Although when searching online or using social media we may think we are involved with a variety of cultures when infact we are just browsing our own interests and are most likely just viewing images of a place different to where we live which is tricking us into thinking that we are knowledgeable on several cultures/ countries.
2 Jamila Lyiscott: 3 ways to speak English
Jamila Lyiscott show how one person can use the English language in so many different ways, she lists the different 'tongues' that she uses ''Home, School and Friends''. She talks about these types of speech as if they are all completely different languages and she calls herself ''tri-lingual'' suggesting that is is a skill for people to understand and speak these versions of the English language on a daily basis; as many of us do now.
3 John McWhorter: Txting is killing language. JK!!!
John McWhorter explains how texting has enabled us to type text in the way we speak he gives an example using 'LOL'. McWhorter goes on to explain how 'lol' is now used as a way of expressing empathy. One person might text ''I love the font your using, btw'' then a reply from the other reading ''lol thanks gmail is being slow rn'' -This shows empathy towards their feelings about the font being used being terrible.
That idea Zuckerman is talking about is an important one for our investigations. The gendered language we talked about in John's lesson was a snapshot of what we see/hear and I talked to a few tables about how some things we hear less often might be more commonly used in different sociolects and give us clues about how we can adjust any research we do to stop being so limited by our own social group and the recieved 'truths' that this group reflects back to us.
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