Lynne Bowker: Translation technologies, society, and science communication

Описание: This is the fifth and final lecture delivered by Lynne Bowker (Université Laval, Quebec, Canada), chair professor of the 2024 CETRA Summer School.

Translation technologies, society, and science communication
Lecture 2 raised questions of social responsibility, lecture 3 emphasized the importance of considering tools users, and lecture 4 explored a specific use case in which translation tools are currently being applied. In the final lecture, we will look beyond this narrow use case to consider how the explosion of translation tools into wider society over the past 15 years is affecting the field of TS. How do non-translators understand the concepts of translation and automatic translation? What is the extent of our social responsibility as translation researchers for helping society to make sense of translation in the age of AI? As domain experts, how can we translate these complex concepts into ideas that are accessible to and meaningful for non-expert audiences? Using experience gleaned over the past five-years on the Machine Translation Literacy Project, I will end the lecture series with thoughts about how we can communicate effectively about translation technologies and translation technology research and how we can mitigate aspects of privilege and marginalization among non-translators by helping them to better understand issues such as transparency, risk analysis and human-computer interaction.