The COVID Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language
Año:
2021
Editorial:
Scientific American, 2021
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Soporte:
Temas
Lingüística, Lingüística » Lingüística de otras Lenguas de Signos
Detalles
People who use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate are no strangers to video chatting. The technology—which has been around since 1927, when AT&T experimented with the first rudimentary videophones—allows deaf people to converse with signs over the airwaves. But after the coronavirus pandemic began confining people to their homes early last year, the use of platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet exploded. This increased reliance on videoconferencing has inevitably transformed the way deaf people communicate.