Digital Divide: Does the Internet Speak Your Language?

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Lu, L. (2010). Digital Divide: Does the Internet Speak Your Language?. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2010 (pp. 4022-4025). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Conference Information

World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2010
Toronto, Canada
June 29, 2010
ISBN 1-880094-81-9
AACE

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Author

Laura Lu, Teachers College, Columbia University, United States

Abstract

This paper reports the issue of Internet language divide. Background data suggest that English remains to be the Internet language despite the fact that only a small percentage of the world’s population speaks English as a first language. The potential problem is that there is a disproportion between the number of non-English speakers and number of non-English websites. The result of English being the dominant language on the Web has created a digital language divide between the English and non-English Internet users. Possible solutions to this problem include low-cost applications and software in user’s native languages, machine translations, and translation services.

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• Digital Divide

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