Globalization:

International News on Blogs

Victoria Ju

May 6, 2009 @ COM 300 9:30 AM Category: Presentation

Global Voices: Are you listening?

• Features daily articles by quoting and contextualizing blogs from around the world, translated into English

• The organization runs completely virtually

• Goal is to bring voice to countries that are often left out of the media around the world

• “aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online”

Global Voices: Behind the Scenes

• Two Co-Founders

• One Managing Director

• One Managing Editor

• Two Technical & Design Members

• Directors for advocacy, outreach, and translation

• Regional Editors

• Language Editors

• AuthorsVolunteers

Project Lingua• Started with a Taiwanese

fansub, now provides 17 different languages

• As bloggers, they search, select, and compile.

• Co-ordinating and reviewing translations through mail lists, wiki, editor /peer review, or direct publication

Some fansubs are professional, not always

• Creative Commons License

Lost in Translation

• Background Knowledge

• Links and References

• Subject

• Presentation

• Cultural gap

• … but must be English-oriented in order to easily maintain site, so is it still global?

Discussion Questions:

• Would you still consider this journalism?

• What do you think about the loss of content and what can be done about it?

• Do you think that a truly globalized website can exist?

Works Cited

• Salzberg, Chris. (July 2008) Translation and Participartory Media: Experiences from Global Voices. Translation Journal, Vol 12 No 3. Retrieved May 4, 2009 from http://accurapid.com/Journal/45global.htm

• http://www.globalvoicesonline.org