Introduction The object of this paper is to bring a holistic perspective to the implications of ICT for Aboriginal ways of living, thinking and knowing. Is ICT the potent enabler for the promotion, renewal and enrichment of Aboriginal cultures as many claim? For example does ICT offer new possibilities for […]
2005 • aboriginal • Australia • impact of | ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • language | preservationDigital Identity: The Construction of Virtual Selfhood in the Indigenous Peoples’ Movement
Abstract Inventions have their greatest impact when they go beyond their possible practical applications and act upon the imagination. When Martin Behaim invented the first globe in 1490, a functionally useless object consisting mostly of terra incognita, he was widely ridiculed; but somehow the ideas that his globe represented stuck, […]
2005 • ICTs • identity • indigenous communities • representation