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Iker Erdocia
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Assistant Professor, Dublin City University. Funded Investigator, Science Foundation Ireland ADAPT Centre. Researching language, policy & politics
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Iker Erdocia @ikererdocia.bsky.social · Jan 31
📢Call for Papers: 'Disruption or Continuity? Machine Learning Technology (AI) in Linguistics Research'

- Workshop in @dublincityuni.bsky.social on 9-10 June
- Special Issue in Linguistics Vanguard journal

Submission deadline: 28 Feb
drive.google.com/file/d/11VqT...

Generously funded by DCU FHSS
Call for Papers_Disruption or Continuity_ Machine Learning Technology (AI) in Linguistics Research.pdf
drive.google.com
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
Hadn't seen this "Cartography of Generative AI" before. From Estampa, a collective of programmers, filmmakers and researchers working in the fields of audiovisual media and digital environments: cartography-of-generative-ai.net
“Cartography of Generative AI (2024)” shows a sprawling, diagrammatic ecosystem of how generative AI is produced and maintained. The background is light pink with turquoise and yellow highlights. The left side has a turquoise vertical sidebar with labeled sections such as AI imaginaries, Critical expertise, Data sciences, Silicon Valley, and AI harms. The main diagram maps the flow of generative AI development from top to bottom: Top left: A globe icon with arrows represents global energy consumption, linked to servers and calculation power (chips, GPUs, and companies like TSMC). Top center: Rows of red server racks show data centers, connected to big data platforms and pipelines of training data (shown as orange blocks). Top right: Yellow stacks and schematic diagrams depict the supply chain of raw materials (e.g., cobalt, lithium) and scenes of mining. Upper right corner: A vignette labeled digital colonialism shows resource extraction sites and cables crossing oceans. Middle section: Blue isometric office-like spaces labeled AI start-ups and Silicon Valley venture capital, with tiny illustrated workers at desks, computers, and whiteboards. Orange and yellow arrows and blocks represent the movement of datasets, training, and alignment processes. A section labeled human labour shows rows of workers annotating data. Lower section: Gridded platforms in orange and yellow depict data extraction from the internet—social media, images, sound, text—and web scraping from sources like Wikipedia, Reddit, Flickr, YouTube. Groups of small figures interact with large wireframe cube models labeled generative AI engines. Other vignettes show AI products (like chatbots), digital gig work, and consumer use. Far right: Layers of stacked chips show advanced chip production and global supply chains. A blue network node diagram illustrates the infrastructure economy behind AI technologies. Boxes at the bottom describe research and governance structures.
October 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
Excited for the @fosterlang.bsky.social Inauguration Event in Poland this September! 🎉 Our @dublincityuni.bsky.social & @adaptcentre.bsky.social team leads WP5 on counteracting digital exclusion. #FOSTERLANG is an EU Horizon project boosting Europe’s minoritised languages. @dcuresearch.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
📢 Do you use AI tools in research + academia?

Survey for scholars working on language in society - please also consider participating if you do NOT use AI technologies.

Complete (15 min) & share by Sept 14 🙏https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/FW27T97

Iker Erdocia, Britta Schneider & Bettina Migge
September 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
Great looking conference 👇
acharityhudley.bsky.social Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social · Sep 2
Y'all! I'm super honored to be the keynote speaker at next year's Georgetown University Linguistics Roundtable Conference.

The theme is Futuring Linguistics!

What does the future of linguistics look like? Come engage w/ us in the big questions!

gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2026-un...
GURT 2026 Call for Papers - Georgetown University Round Table
The GURT 2026 Organizing Committee is proud to announce that the call for papers is now open! THEME: FUTURING LINGUISTICS: Content, Curriculum & Careers What does the future of linguistics look like? ...
gurt.georgetown.edu
September 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
Not surprising in itself. What’s surprising is how much the academic infrastructure relies on platform capitalism
August 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
My latest article is out! I explore how language, vulnerability, and resilience intersect. This is another output from my project on language and participation, generously funded by @researchireland.ie and FHSS @dublincityuni.bsky.social #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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languageinsociety.bsky.social
NEW #OA ON FIRSTVIEW

"Language in the age of AI technology: From human to non-human authenticity, from public governance to privatised assemblages" by @ikererdocia.bsky.social, Britta Schneider, Bettina Migge

doi.org/10.1017/S004...
#StandardLg #AI #Authority #BigTech #RealAcademiaEspañola
Language in the age of AI technology: From human to non-human authenticity, from public governance to privatised assemblages | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
Language in the age of AI technology: From human to non-human authenticity, from public governance to privatised assemblages
doi.org
June 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
I'm thrilled that the result of our research collaboration on language and AI, with Britta Schneider and Bettina Migge, has been published in Language in Society 🤩 It's now open access! doi.org/10.1017/S004... @dcuresearch.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 6:14 AM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
I'm delighted to be involved in this exciting and very needed Horizon Europe project on fostering linguistic capital in Europe. Our @dublincityuni.bsky.social & @adaptcentre.bsky.social team will work on WP5: Counteracting digital exclusion: IT tools & resources for lesser-used languages.
fosterlang.bsky.social FOSTERLANG @fosterlang.bsky.social · May 8
📢We're delighted to announce the launch of #FOSTERLANG the new EU Horizon funded project aiming to boost minoritised languages and foster Europe's linguistic capital. 😍

👉 Details: www.facebook.com/Fosterlang.E...

@eurolang.bsky.social #ELEN2025 #HorizonEurope
May 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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iraal.bsky.social
🟠 Deadline approaching ‼️ Ag teannadh leis an spriocdháta
iraal.bsky.social iraal.bsky.social @iraal.bsky.social · Apr 11
🔔EXCITING NEWS🔔

🟢 #IRAAL2025 🌟50th Anniversary 🌟
Call for Papers | Gairm ar pháipéar

Linguistics in Ireland: Reflecting on the past, looking to the future
📍 @tcddublin.bsky.social

📩 Submit abstract by 31 May 2025:
forms.gle/7Xfk8aX49zdR...
Queries: iraal2025conference@gmail.com
forms.gle
May 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Reposted by Iker Erdocia
riseup-he.bsky.social
Meet the presenters of our next Networking Event on What AI Can and Cannot Do for Minoritised Languages, taking place on 22.05. from 14:00-17:00 CET!
You can find more information on their presentations here: www.riseupproject.eu/events/panel...
Register now!
May 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Reposted by Iker Erdocia
dublincityuni.bsky.social
#Analysis: We're still not used to diversity in Ireland's electoral system.
DCU's Dr @ikererdocia.bsky.social says attitudes towards migrant political candidates are improving, but change to Ireland’s voting system comes slowly.
Read more in @thejournal.ie: launch.dcu.ie/3YFrK1f
Dr Iker Erdocia
May 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
Today I write in the newspaper www.thejournal.ie/readme/immig... @dublincityuni.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social
Analysis: We're still not used to diversity in Ireland's electoral system
Dr Iker Erdocia says attitudes towards migrant political candidates are improving, but change to Ireland’s voting system comes slowly.
www.thejournal.ie
May 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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fujomedia.bsky.social
📢 Call for Papers!
The 2nd FuJo PhD Conference on Media, Democracy & Society is happening 5 Sept 2025 at @dublincityuni.bsky.social .

📝 Abstracts due: 9th June, 2025
🎯 PhD researchers across Ireland—submit now!
🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Reposted by Iker Erdocia
iraal.bsky.social
🔔EXCITING NEWS🔔

🟢 #IRAAL2025 🌟50th Anniversary 🌟
Call for Papers | Gairm ar pháipéar

Linguistics in Ireland: Reflecting on the past, looking to the future
📍 @tcddublin.bsky.social

📩 Submit abstract by 31 May 2025:
forms.gle/7Xfk8aX49zdR...
Queries: iraal2025conference@gmail.com
forms.gle
April 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Reposted by Iker Erdocia
joelobianco.bsky.social
Finally it’s here. Our book is titled ‘Language Politics in Tunisia: A Study of Language Ideological Debates’, and my co-author is Dr Fethi Helal.

Till the end of February you can get a 60% discount with the code LPT60 on the MM website: bit.ly/4aT6ycU

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Language Politics in Tunisia
This book offers both a nuanced picture of language ideologies and language policies in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and a detailed critical and interdisciplinary model of Language Policy and Planning.  T...
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February 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
My latest article is out: 'Language and trust: Struggles for recognition of migrant people in the political realm' @fujomedia.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social Open Access & supported by
@researchireland.bsky.social and @dublincityuni.bsky.social FHSS. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
February 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
Our call for papers now on LinguistList! 👇
linguistlist.bsky.social Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Feb 8
Calls: Disruption or Continuity? Machine Learning Technology (AI) in Linguistics Research (Workshop): Call for Papers:

-Title: Disruption or Continuity? Machine Learning Technology (AI) in Linguistics Research
- Co-editors: Iker Erdocia (Dublin City University), Bettina Migge (University College…
Calls: Disruption or Continuity? Machine Learning Technology (AI) in Linguistics Research (Workshop)
Call for Papers: -Title: Disruption or Continuity? Machine Learning Technology (AI) in Linguistics Research - Co-editors: Iker Erdocia (Dublin City University), Bettina Migge (University College Dublin) and Britta Schneider (European University…
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February 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
Meanwhile in Ireland: "It is critically important that Irish children have the opportunity to learn foreign languages from an early age" 👌👏 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Primary teachers to be trained to teach foreign languages over several years
Pupils to learn French, German or other languages from third class onwards
www.irishtimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
📢Call for Papers: 'Disruption or Continuity? Machine Learning Technology (AI) in Linguistics Research'

- Workshop in @dublincityuni.bsky.social on 9-10 June
- Special Issue in Linguistics Vanguard journal

Submission deadline: 28 Feb
drive.google.com/file/d/11VqT...

Generously funded by DCU FHSS
Call for Papers_Disruption or Continuity_ Machine Learning Technology (AI) in Linguistics Research.pdf
drive.google.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
Thrilled to share my new @researchireland.bsky.social project! It will bring together researchers (sociolinguists, minority language scholars, computational linguists) to tackle dis/misinformation through a multilingual lens @fujomedia.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 9:43 PM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
I've just submitted my proposal to this great looking conference in Bristol. The deadline is in two days!
spanishinsoc.bsky.social Spanish in Society @spanishinsoc.bsky.social · Nov 18
The CfP for the 2025 Spanish in Society conference (Bristol, 5-6 June 2025) is open until 30 November, with confirmed keynote speakers @nelsonlflores.bsky.social, Nicola Bermingham and Daniel Amarelo: www.spanishinsociety.com/events @jameshawkey.bsky.social
Image of the full text of the Call for Papers in English, which can also be found at https://www.spanishinsociety.com/events
November 28, 2024 at 7:47 PM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
New publication out in JSLX: Language isn't just a data set. We explore why and suggest new directions for sociolinguistic research in the AI era #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Check out the full issue.
November 11, 2024 at 9:50 AM
ikererdocia.bsky.social
📢Language policy alert📢

Language Policy in Africa is a new journal, devoted to the idea that African languages are key to Africa's development. LPIA seeks articles to help shape practical, efficient, rational, and inclusive African-based LPP bop.unibe.ch/index.php/LP...
March 22, 2024 at 1:45 PM