So, what's next for memes? As they become more sophisticated, more ingrained in commerce and politics, do we risk losing their spontaneous, grassroots nature? Or is this just evolution in action?

#MemeEconomy #DigitalLinguistics #InternetCultureHistory

Cover of the De Gruyter-book "Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora"

📖 How is language evolving online? This #OpenAccess volume explores Computer-mediated Communication & social media through corpus-based research. #DigitalLinguistics #CorpusStudies

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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost everything. It had to go, he thought, if it had any chance of surviving....

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral #Science #ComputerScience #ArtificialIntelligence #AILEarning #LanguagePreservation #DigitalLinguistics

DRV-Sommerschule 2025 Am Institut für Romanistik der FAU findet vom 1. bis 5. September 2025 eine durch den Deutschen Romanistikverband geförderte Sommerschule zum Thema „Social Media“ statt. Die Sommerschule richtet sich…

Nutzt die Gelegenheit, eure Forschung vorzustellen, zu diskutieren und wertvolle neue Impulse zu erhalten, und bewerbt euch gerne bis zum 31.05.25 – alle Informationen findet ihr über den Link! (2/2)
#Romanistik #DRVSommerschule2025 #Sprachwissenschaft #DigitalLinguistics
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