Declercq, C; (2014) Crowd, cloud and automation in the translation education community. In: Katan, D and Spinzi, C, (eds.) Transcreation and the Professions. (pp. 37-56). Iconesoft Edizioni

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Following the global technological turn of the 1990s, translation education has increasingly begun to include technology from the late 1990s and the early 2000s onwards. Translation and technology has now become a dominant research topic in Translation Studies. However, academic analyses of translation technology concepts, processes and usages are on a knife’s edge. Potential usages of the latest technology are being scrutinized on the one hand, but the uptake of that same technology in the classroom poses substantial problems on the other hand. Exposing aspiring translators at Masters level to contemporary language and translation technology trends endangers the sense of security students need in order to learn new concepts and develop new skills. Including concepts such as automation and crowd, as well as their underlying technology and working processes, is often seen by more traditional teaching staff as the opposite of risk aversion and in fact it could have several advantages for Masters level students. These technological trends therefore need to be addressed more clearly in the curricula of Translation Studies programmes.

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