Bengali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration Kolkata/Submissions/Glocalizing Asia: Connecting differences globally and locally

Submission no.

Title of the submission

Glocalizing Asia: Connecting differences globally and locally

Type of submission (discussion, hot seat, panel, presentation, tutorial, workshop)

presentation

Author of the submission

Samir Karmakar & Chandan Adhya

E-mail address

samir.krmkr@gmail.com, chandanadhya2012@gmail.com

Username

skca

Country of origin

India

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)

Personal homepage or blog

Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)

For long, technology remains outside the ambits of sociological imagination. Only in recent past, we realize how crucial it is to understand different conditions of human existence. In contrast to the traditional understanding that human freedom is subjugated by the rational and instrumental imperatives of technology, technology as a form of material culture is fundamental to the social structure and social change. What follows in, then, is an realization that social and technical are two irreducible terms through which individual is manifested. This becomes more than a truth in case of speech and language technology mainly because of two reasons: Firstly, speech or language is the most pervasive form of socially-shared technology that we have; and secondly the crucial role played by speech and language technology in carrying out the third phase of industrial revolution. Third phase of industrial revolution – unlike the previous two phases of mechanization and electrification, accordingly – is marked by the information boom due to the invention of transistor, computer and telecommunication. As a consequence, sociological imagination has also gone through considerable amount of change. The most crucial changes that the third phase of industrial revolution has bought into is (i) the centrality of science and technology in economic growth, (ii) the primacy of information processing in material production, (iii) the emergence of networked industrial organization, and (iv) the rise of global socio-economy. Expansion of this newly evolved global-socio economy depends on to what extent different parts of the societal network are qualified to support (a) smooth flow of information and (b) cooperation both at the local and global levels. Therefore, necessity of the proper measures to capacitate different portions of the network in terms of information flow and cooperation is felt. Though this necessity in political sphere is realized through the formation of intergovernmental organizations like EU, ASEAN, ECO, AU, SAARC etc., a clear vision has yet to be developed about how the benefits of the networked society can be extended even to the most under privileged sections of the society. Under this situation, capacitating societal network definitely requires a critical dialogue with the hegemony of technocratic and market driven discourses to uphold the issues of social and cultural development. More specifically, the present paper will argue that speech and language technology can do a lot to ensure linguistic right and to disrupt the areal boundaries in order to bring out different communities into a virtual space where global and local can be fused successfully and meaningfully into a composite network of glocal – a niche to take care of socio as well as linguistic ecology of Asia.

Track

Wikiculture and Community

Language of Track

Length of session (if other than 30 minutes, specify how long)

30 minutes

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1. Tanweer (talk) 11:05, 3 January 2015 (UTC)