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lingua franca

by BethDunn on June 28, 2008

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Ever since I started writing this blog, I’ve thought about my role in social media in terms of some of my favorite metaphors, like Translator, Interpreter, and Ambassador. As time has gone on, I have only become more convinced that this is what I’m really good at, that this is really what I have to [...]

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lost in translation – social media and hamlet

by BethDunn on January 12, 2008

“One can easily misinterpret the universal by misunderstanding the particular.”♦ You probably remember reading it in Intro to Anthropology: Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannon. It’s the story of a young anthropologist’s attempt to prove the universal nature of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, by introducing the story to the elders of the Tiv in West Africa. [...]

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