De Nieuwe Media en Hun Taalkundige Consequenties

The transborder flow of data and informational services increases at a much higher rate (20% per annum) than the national telecommunication and broadcast traffic. However, ensuring that all the new satellite channels, mobile networks and telematics services provide intelligible and useful information to their users is not merely a technical matter.Clearly, new professional opportunities arise for, amongst others, linguists and interpreters, both in research and development of new and better information systems, and in their application in society.