Constructing Glocal Identities Through Multilingual Writing Practices on Flickr.com®
2011; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 5; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/19313152.2011.541331
ISSN1931-3160
Autores Tópico(s)Multilingual Education and Policy
ResumoAbstract This article reports on a study of user-generated multilingual writing activities on the photo sharing site, Flickr.com®. It discusses how Flickr users deploy their multilingual resources when interacting with international audiences, the factors affecting their language choice, and how new multilingual identities are constructed. An exploratory content analysis of the photo sites and profiles of 100 Flickr users was followed up by an online questionnaire survey and focused online interviews of Chinese and Spanish users. This article shows that Flickr is a highly multilingual Web 2.0 space, where language choice is affected by the users' situated linguistic ecology, their imagined audience, the content of their photos, and the perceived functions of Flickr. Our findings also reveal new relations between the local and the global. The article concludes by arguing that multilingual writing practices are crucial in negotiating "glocal" identities and widening participation in Web 2.0 spaces such as Flickr. Keywords: Flickr®glocal identitieslanguage choicemultilingual literacy practicesphoto sharingWeb 2.0 Notes 1The Web-based survey, Internet World Stats (2010), also explained its methodology: "Indeed, many people are bilingual or multilingual, but here we assign only one language per person in order to have all the language totals add up to the total world population."
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