TRANSLATION AND DISRUPTION: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES
TRANSLATION AND DISRUPTION: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES
Saturday 4 November 2017
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.
Confirmed Keynote speakers:
Prof. Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University
Prof. Kayoko Takeda, Rikkyo University, Japan
Pre-conference seminar
Friday 3 November 2017 (Free event): read more
Papers
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
Download programme: 2017 Portsmouth Translation Conference programme.
We will be publishing a number of papers on translation and disruption in the thematic section of Revista Tradumàtica in December 2018. You may want to submit your paper for review and consideration for inclusion in this issue.
Register
Book your place through our online store: Translation Conference 2017 registration.
Further information
Please send enquiries to translation@port.ac.uk.