{"681690":{"#nid":"681690","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Code Switching in the Digital World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnology has transformed how we communicate. Research from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts shows that code-switching \u2014 the practice of switching between languages, dialects, accents, tones, or cultures in conversation \u2014 is changing with it.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFaculty members in the School of Modern Languages and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs have published three studies examining how language and cultural code-switching have adapted to the digital age, revealing speakers\u2019 fluency, promoting self-expression, and making messaging more effective. Their research is relevant, as the population of bilingual and bicultural people increases in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy better understanding code-switching in digital spaces, \u201cwe can reveal insights into language dynamics and cultural identity among young bilingual speakers,\u201d says Hongchen Wu, an assistant professor in the School of Modern Languages. \u201cAnnotated code-switching datasets are also a valuable resource for training and testing language technologies tailored to bilingual speakers \u2014 allowing, for example, an AI-assistant that can understand their code-switching with no struggles.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2025\/04\/code-switching-digital-world\u0022\u003ERead the full article published by Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Modern Languages and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETechnology has transformed how we communicate.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Technology has transformed how we communicate. "}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-04-09 16:30:14","changed_gmt":"2025-04-09 16:30:41","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676802":{"id":"676802","type":"image","title":"Code Switching in the Digital World","body":null,"created":"1744215931","gmt_created":"2025-04-09 16:25:31","changed":"1744216042","gmt_changed":"2025-04-09 16:27:22","alt":"Code Switching in the Digital World - header image","file":{"fid":"260644","name":"screen_898.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/09\/screen_898.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/09\/screen_898.png","mime":"image\/png","size":2158041,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/04\/09\/screen_898.png?itok=vwdMJsHn"}}},"media_ids":["676802"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}