Social Media and Translation - University of Manchester 2013

Citizen Media Colloquium, University of Manchester - June 14, 2013 Tom Trewinnard

#sidibouzid #jan25 #TT@speak2tweet @aiwwenglishtranslatedesk

social media and translation

@ethanz

From @ethanz

From @ethanz

imaginary cosmopolitanism

cc Flickr Dal Lu

opportunity missed

trending topics 7/6/2013

thx Google

hmm

wtf?

got it

Arabizi

translating social media needs social translators

The story of Bouazizi and the protests and clashes which followed his self-immolation were initially largely overlooked by international media.Much of the news emerging from Tunisia was on Twitter and in French and Arabic

#bouazizi

We hacked a new use for an app called curated.by

Allowed users to curate tweets and add them to “bundles”

Curation could be done as an individual or collaboratively as part of a team

the hack

#topic tag #translation tag

Original link from tweet

User who posted original tweet

link to curated.by bundle

Needed a simple way to indicate a tweet was a translation so we used: #AREN (later #Ar2En) & #ENAR (later #En2Ar)

This let people know we were translating AND created a useful feed of translated content (as a #hashtag)

Speak2Tweet

Speak2Tweet

Speak2Tweet

Sidebar about the projectSite navigationCC license

Time stampTagsAuthor attributionTweet button

Two column formatEnglish and ChineseEmbedded images

(not visible)

FAQGlossary of Terms

Learn more:

http://www.anxiaostudio.com/wiki/HomePage

bird’s nest

Google Translate(for quick filtering)

RT count (measure of resonance)

Filters:All tweetsPopular tweets (RT +2)Tweets without repliesFav’d by translators

Quick dictionary lookup

Post to Tumblr button

Time Stamp and Link to Original

“Reserved by” Translator

bird’s nest

TranslatedeskCommunity-driven translation of social media conversations

Versatile web-based client to facilitate collaboration and streamline access to research tools

Rich repository of messages around individuals, events, issues, etc.

Allow readers to participate in online conversations in languages they do not speak

thx F xiexie شكرًا

Citizen Media Colloquium, University of Manchester - June 14, 2013 Tom Trewinnard

@tom_el_rumi@meedan