@AsiaLangsOnline

Since 2019, Rising Voices and partners have been organizing a social media campaign features a rotating roster of language activists from across Asia who guest hosts of the @AsiaLangsOnline Twitter account. This social media campaign provides a space for diverse voices from across the region to tell stories of their experiences with language revitalization and how the internet is playing a role directly with audiences interested in the subject matter. As a way to amplify these voices, the account aims to be collaborative in the spirit of the open sharing of knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned.

See @AsiaLangsOnline hosts from 2019 (red), 2020 (blue), 2021 (green), 2022 (orange). Click on each marker for a link to their Q&A blog post.

Different activists take weekly turns at @AsiaLangsOnline sharing their perspectives on what their language means to them and their communities. These activists are all working to promoting the use of their languages in new domains like the internet, which presents many opportunities and challenges. But there is also an important offline component to their activism related to long-standing histories and contemporary contexts that affect the vitality of Asian languages.

As a part of the campaign, we have conducted short Q&A interviews with each host a way to get to know them better prior to their participation. See below for a link to all of the interviews.

Read the Q&A blog posts with each of the campaign's host since the start of the campaign in 2019

Similar initiatives using Twitter as a collaborative medium have taken place in Latin America (@ActLenguas) and in Africa (@DigiAfricanLang), in Canada and the United States (@NativeLangsTech), and Europe (@EuroDigitalLang) but this project will focus on languages across Asia.

Response to calls for participation has been extremely positive, as the roster for the first several weeks has already been filled. We are also conducting outreach to invite others to take part. If you have a suggestion for someone that would make a good guest host, please contact us.

Learn about each year's season clicking on the year below.

@AsiaLangsOnline 2022

Follow the Twitter account @AsiaLangsOnline throughout 2022 to read perspectives from Asian language digital activists about their work revitalizing their language.

@AsiaLangsOnline 2021

Follow the Twitter account @AsiaLangsOnline throughout 2020 to read perspectives from Asian language digital activists about their work revitalizing their language.

@AsiaLangsOnline 2020

Follow the Twitter account @AsiaLangsOnline throughout 2020 to read perspectives from Asian language digital activists about their work revitalizing their language.

@AsiaLangsOnline 2019

Follow the Twitter account @AsiaLangsOnline throughout 2019 to read perspectives from Asian language digital activists about their work revitalizing their language.