在澳門的朋友們可以來聽聽, 關於維基百科跨語連結及中文維基的搜尋引擎能見度研究結果.... * * * * *University of Macau* *Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities* *Department of English Lecture Series* *Liao Han-Teng* *Doctoral Candidate* *Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford* on *Visualizing and understanding how online language areas are made and interconnected* Wednesday 25 April 2012 17.30 HG01 *All are Welcome* * * *Abstract* Do you recognize language codes such as "en","zh" and "ar" or country codes such as "cn", "hk", or "mo" when you use online services and applications? These codes are not merely the technical standards on which the internet can be truly international “to interchange data in a multiplicity of languages”, but also the essential knowledge with which the “language industry” serves consumers and citizens with a specific geographic and linguistic profile. Since these codes are instrumental for online services and interactions, researchers can study and visualize them. This talk presents research outcome of visualizing and analyzing (1) Wikipedia’s interlanguage links and (2) the Search Engine Result Pages (SERP) across Chinese-speaking regions as illustrative examples to see how “online language areas” (or Net Sprachraum) are made and interconnected. It is further argued that the concept of online language areas fills the gap, and resolves some tensions, between the concept of “networked individualism” and “nationalized cyberspace”, pointing to some recent Internet development, including online Chinese-speaking and Arabic-speaking areas. Thus, to understand how the Internet is truly interconnected, both within and across, languages and regions, researchers need to understand how the language and country codes are used to shape online language areas. Liao is a doctoral candidate at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His research focuses on the role of keywords, hyperlinks, search engines and user-generated encyclopedias in shaping the sense of “*fellow users*<http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hanteng/2012/02/29/needing-to-have-a-voice-linguistic-grouping-in-the-digital-networked-environment/>” in digital the networking. Liao worked as 2011 Yahoo! fellow at the *Institute for the Study of Diplomacy* <http://isd.georgetown.edu/>at Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) where he organized *the Chinese Internet Research Conference* <http://circ.asia/>2011 and as a doctoral fellow at the *Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica <http://www.ios.sinica.edu.tw/ios/index.php> *(Taiwan). He holds a master’s degree in computer science, a master of arts degree in journalism, along with degrees in electronic engineering, foreign languages and literature.