Alessandro Mongili
Professor of Sociology & STS, University of Padua Visiting scholar, UBC Centre for European Studies
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Thursday, November 20,
5:00 – 6:30 PM
Buchanan Tower 1112
“Management and Maintenance of Digital Platform Interfaces in a Minoritized Language. The Case of Sardinian”
Digital platforms and information infrastructures increasingly mediate linguistic presence and recognition yet, for languages such as Sardinian, the process of localization is neither systematic nor institutionally supported. Instead, it relies largely on the initiative of active minorities, grassroots activists, and computer scientists who engage in “localization from below.” Through their efforts, platform interfaces are translated, adapted, and maintained in ways that reflect both the opportunities and the fragilities of digital infrastructures. By examining these dynamics, the presentation highlights how digital infrastructures both reproduce and reshape conditions of linguistic marginalization, while also creating new spaces
for activism and experimentation.
