Introduction: Digital Modern Languages Launch Issue

Abstract

This introduction to the Digital Modern Languages Launch Issue outlines our aims for the Section to bring together and expand research that engages with digital culture, media and technologies in relation to languages other than English. With the Issue encompassing literary and cultural studies, linguistics, pedagogical and computational research, we highlight how a heterogeneity of approaches contributes to a generous and productive transdisciplinary culture that ideally defines both Modern Languages and the Digital Humanities. We further emphasise how the contributors to this Issue demonstrate the value and necessity of the specific linguistic and cultural expertise that Modern Languages researchers and students bring in terms of how we make sense of our place in increasingly digital worlds. Tweetable abstract: @politonaiz and @NASWells introduce the @digmodlang launch issue that aims to inspire #ModernLanguages researchers to expand the ways we research and teach through and about digital media and technologies.