Translation and Disruption: Global and Local Perspectives

Saturday 4 November 2017

Confirmed Keynote speaker: Prof. Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University.

Since Clayton Christensen’s seminal book Innovator’s Dilemma showed how a small-scale but innovative digital technology can overthrow large established businesses overnight, the idea of digital disruption has been causing both excitement and concern in businesses worldwide, from financial and legal services to entertainment distribution and the taxi industry. The world of translation is not immune to such upheavals and the notion of digital disruption is useful for understanding changes in translation practice.

This conference aims to consider the disruptive power of translation across a wide range of digital technologies: machine translation, CAT tools, crowdsourcing, social media, mobile devices, speech recognition, remote interpreting, VLEs and MOOCs (for education).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Digital disruption: the reality of the translation industry?
The sociality of digital tool use in translation in the history
Who should become machine translation post editors?
Ethical and/or efficient data collection methods for machine translation training
Translators as activists in the digital space
Translation as a vehicle of grass root communications
Influence of technologies on human agencies of translation
Influence of new digital tools to translator’s/user’s cognition
Promotion of minority cultures and humanitarian causes using translation technologies
Translation on social media
Translator as prosumer
Economy of digital disruption in translation
Influence of translation technologies to language learning
Innovative use of technologies in translation education
We welcome proposals from postgraduate students, early career and more established researchers, translators and other industry professionals.

Please send enquiries and proposals of around 200 words for 60-minute practical workshops and 20-minute research papers related to the topic to translation@port.ac.uk by 15 June 2017.

Presentations which will stimulate dialogues between different disciplines such as Translation Studies, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Economics are invited.

Máis información: http://www.port.ac.uk/translation/events/conference/