Commentary: Mediatized spaces for minoritized languages. Challenges and opportunities
The mediatized spaces that have opened up as a result of the contemporary era of globalized digital media are evident in all three contributions to this section: Máiréad Moriarty highlights how Irish can become a resource in the repertoire of a comedian, who learned it as an adult, as well as a ‘rehabilitated’ identity resource for those who learned the language in school to various degrees of fluency; Ana Deumart’s case shows how the technoscape (Appadurai 1996) provides the tools for individuals to localize resources for themselves away from the restrictions of normative institutions; and Sari Pietikäinen’s rhizomatic analysis of spaces, ...
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