“It’s unsettling to realize how quickly digital resources can disappear without ongoing work to maintain them.” Thanks to my friend Daniel Schuldt for sharing this with me.
2017 • digital • digital archive • digital artefacts • digital collections • digital heritage • digital media • digital preservation • technology
Having its roots in computer science and information systems, the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) in development has arguably been dominated by technocentric approaches, mainly concerned with describing and managing the mechanisms of technology diffusion and adoption. However, the high failure rate of many ICT for development (ICT4D) […]
2017 • capability approach • evaluation • Guyana • ICT • ICT4D • impact of | ICTs • indigenous communities • North Rupununi • systems thinking • wellbeing
Note: I am thankful to have received an email from Dr. Juan Carlos Sandoval today letting me know about this recently published paper. I look forward to learning about more of his research! Cheers, Mark This article reports the development of a collaborative research through the use of a participatory […]
2017 • collaboration • decolonization • indigenous / traditional knowledge • mexico • participatory • sustainability • Veracruz • video • youth
The study stresses on the convergence of digital media with the traditional folk media in Assam (a state of India), and tries to shade some practical lights on the effects of digital media into the field of folk media. The research methodology used in this study is qualitative in nature; […]
2017 • Assam • cultural heritage • culture | preservation • digital media • education • folk media • India
Central Land Council Press Release: Traditional owners of Anthwerrke (Emily Gap) have invested their rent income from the Yeperenye/Emily and Jessie Gaps Nature Park in an interactive visitor experience at the sacred site near Alice Springs. They will launch the interactive tour with CLC chair Francis Kelly, the Member for […]
aboriginal • Anthwerrke • application • Arrernte • Australia • dreaming • Emily Gap • interactive • songline • tour • traditional owners
There are clear challenges posed by rural and remote education in Australia. These challenges are caused both by physical and material factors, but more importantly epistemological divisions that have created a separation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous worlds. Video games have the potential to bridge this epistemological gap by explicating the […]
2017 • Australia • education • epistemology • gaming • knowledge systems • remote regions • representation • rural • video game • youth
This study explores how indigenous knowledge (IK) might be retained and/or changed among contemporary indigenous peoples. Through semi-structured interviews and quantitative analyses of long-term changes in artistic knowledge among three geographically displaced Kaiabi (Kawaiwete) we found an association between language proficiency and gender with greater IK retention, and formal schooling […]
2017 • Amazon • basketry • Brazil • culture | preservation • indigenous / traditional knowledge • innovation • Kaiabi • Kawaiwete • transmission
Prior studies describe digital tactics as specific strategies actors apply within broader repertoires of contention, specifically in social and political contexts. A comparison of EZLN, Idle No More, and the ongoing Rio Yaqui water rights movement reveals the kinds of community knowledge work that has to happen prior to and […]
activism • indigenous issues • methodologies • social change • social media
Excerpt With the increase in land claim agreements, renegotiation of treaty rights and local control of resource development, many Indigenous communities are engaging in the use of new media and information technologies in the process of self-determination. This direct control and involvement leads to issues of preservation and sustainable development […]
Canada • e-learning • education • First Nations • ICT • indigenous communities • pedagogy • technology • youth
A growing body of research examining the role of technology in indigenous knowledge production and distribution has helped define the new ways that communities are connecting to each other and organizing around the world. At the same time, social justice activist focus in the United States has turned to the […]
2017 • activism • algorithm bias • colonization / colonialism • identity • indigenous / traditional knowledge • internet • representation • social change
This paper aims to analyze the use of technology in indigenous environments as an instrument to preserve their culture and language. We also aimed here to display results of a first version of a cataloguing system we have been developing to store words from the Xacriabá language. We think that […]
2016 • endangered language • indigenous language • language and technology • revitalization • Xacriabá
In this paper we examine digital storytelling as a mode of arts-inspired inquiry: in particular we consider digital storytelling as a powerful arts-inspired approach that can help researchers, practitioners, and communities understand and support indigenous and marginalized youth. Our two-fold focus is on: (1) a digital storytelling initiative that engaged […]
2017 • Alaska • digital storytelling • indigenous communities • marginalized • youth
“Word of Mouth” provides information on the significance of orality in African countries. The internet project thus aims to build bridges between societies shaped by oral traditions and the predominantly text-based global knowledge society. In addition, “Word of Mouth” presents information on German activities in the field of orality, thus […]
Africa • Germany • indigenous / traditional knowledge • information society • knowledge tradition • oral tradition • storytelling
Videography is a powerful tool for recording and representing aspects of human society and culture, and anthropologists have long used – and debated the use of – video as a tool to study indigenous and traditional peoples. Indigenous people themselves, however, have increasingly turn video towards their own cultural and […]
2013 • community media • indigenous media • Oaxaca | Mexico • video