Jiaming Zheng

@jiamingzheng.bsky.social

Manchu | Translator Durham University alumni Interested in Translation Dialects Linguistics Sociolinguistics Ethnography History

New article, free online: Qiu, J., & Pym, A. (2026). Audience empowerment in multilingual media: the interplay between audiences, platforms, and the state. Translation Studies, 1–17. doi.org/10.1080/1478... On how Chinese fans intervene in English-language subtitles and who controls it all.

Audience empowerment in multilingual media: the interplay between audiences, platforms, and the state

Current video-streaming platforms encourage audiences to engage in the meaning-making and circulation of audiovisual content through liking, sharing, and commenting. These forms of participation ca...

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Ready for a new academic year? Let's start on a high note by kicking off the brand-new CTIS Research Seminar Series 2025-26 together! Here is the Semester 1 programme. Zoom links for individual sessions will be shared in the comments.

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Super-pleased to have a chapter in this new book on Bible Translation. There is a WILD chasm between Translation Studies and Bible Translation, despite the Bible being the world’s most translated text! Lots of historic reasons, but time to bridge the gap! wipfandstock.com/978166677128...

Expanding Approaches to Bible Translation- Wipf and Stock Publishers

The assertion in this book, included within the BPC series, is that translation is as fundamental to biblical material as performance--both in its history as...

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4th Int'l Research School for Media Translation & Digital Culture (#MTDC25 ) #HongKong 23-28 June Also under #MTDC25 's theoretical module, #HenryJones will examine how materiality impacts media translation in digital culture Learn more here: ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/research-sch...

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Luis Pérez-González@luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social · last yr.

4th Int'l Research School for Media Translation & Digital Culture (MTDC25), #HongKong 23-28 June Under MTDC's theoretical module, @neilsadler.bsky.social will explore the role of translation within the practice of #disinformation #MTDC25 Find out more here: ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/research-sch...

Now here's a fascinating article: “Capital-T-truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies” by Debra Scoggins Ballentine. In Bible translation studies, we've known for a while that capitalization has its limits (i.e., lost in audio).

Ballentine, Debra Scoggins. 2025. “Capital-T-Truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 37 (2): 123–45. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-bja10144.

Spring 2025 Seminar series, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, March 21st, Friday. Join us for my talk "Localization, automation and AI: a human-centered AI (HCAI) approach" Registration: "https://emel.frl.auth.gr/index.php/en/spring-seminar-series-4/program-2025