Understanding Wikipedia’s Dark Matter

Hong Kong Baptist University 15-17 December 2021 | Online via Zoom Second Call for Papers   Background Wikipedia is the world’s largest online encyclopaedia. It has 303 active language editions, which were accessed from 1.7bn unique devices during October 2020. Now over twenty years old, the encyclopaedia has been studied by academics working within a range of disciplines since the mid-2000s,

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My Child Asks, ‘Can Israel Destroy Our Building if the Power Is Out?’

By Refaat Alareer The New York Times May 13, 2021   TAL AL-HAWA, Gaza Strip — On Tuesday night, my wife, six children and I huddled in the living room of our apartment, the place least likely to take a stray hit from Israeli missiles or the debris they scatter. We were watching Al Jazeera’s livestreaming of Israeli warplanes’ imminent

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Health

Edited by Şebnem Susam-Saraeva and Eva Spišiaková Copyright Year 2021 ISBN 9781138335349 The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Health provides a bridge between translation studies and the burgeoning field of health humanities, which seeks novel ways of understanding health and illness. As discourses around health and illness are dependent on languages for their transmission, impact, spread, acceptance and rejection in

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