Communication has increasingly become an online activity, as the proliferation of mobile media devices and online applications and platforms indicates. Given that translation is a form of intercultural and interlinguistic communication, it follows that translation activity has also migrated to the mobile, virtual world. While scholarship on the relationship between the Web and translation has been undertaken since the Web’s early iterations in the 1990s (e.g. localization, crowdsourcing, to name only these examples), specific aspects of this vast area of study have yet to be researched and analyzed, particularly the interdependent and complex relationships between translation and online social media (OSM).

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