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Asian Ethnicity ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/caet20 Empowering or endangering minorities? Facebook, language, and identity in Myanmar Myat The-Thitsar To cite this article: Myat The-Thitsar (2021): Empowering or endangering minorities? Facebook, language, and identity in Myanmar, Asian Ethnicity, DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2021.1951596 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2021.1951596 Published online: 12 Jul 2021. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=caet20

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Empowering or endangering minorities? Facebook, language and identity in Myanmar

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Myat The Thitsar

Date Published: Jul 12, 2021

Abstract: Language policies play a major role in ethnic conflict because they affect the right of speakers to choose and use their preferred language(s), and help determine courses of action to maintain, assert or defend such rights. There has been insufficient analysis on the role of social media, particularly Facebook, in strengthening or undermining the survival of minority languages and collective identity in multi-ethnic countries. This paper uses Myanmar as a case study to demonstrate the extent to which Facebook lan-guage policies influence language use practices of minorities in Myanmar. While Facebook’s selection of Burmese as a ‘Facebook language’ has privileged the use of Myanmar’s majority language at the expense of its minority languages, it has simultaneously pro-vided opportunities for ethnic minorities to preserve and promote their languages and cultures.

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