The Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal hosts 3 interoperable databases (videos of natural group conversation, dictionary entries, and audio files), allowing the user to click on a word in a video sub-title to see the entire dictionary entry for the word and then listen to audio recordings of that word as well […]
database • dictionary • indigenous language • language | preservation • Maliseet • multimedia • online portal • PassamaquoddyOjibwe Language Revitalization, Multimedia Technology, and Family Language Learning
Although Indigenous language loss and revitalization are not new topics of academic work nor new areas of community activism (e.g., King, 2001; Grenoble & Whaley, 2006), increased attention has been paid in recent years to the ways that new technology can support efforts to teach and renew endangered languages such […]
2013 • endangered language • indigenous language • language | preservation • multimedia • Ojibwe / Ojibway • revitalization • technologyNew Technologies and Contested Ideologies
About the Tagish-Tlingit FirstVoices project – published in the American Indian Quarterly, Winter & Spring 2006, Vol. 30, Nos. 1 & 2. The website discussed in the article is featured below: http://www.firstvoices.ca In December 2004 representatives of the Yukon government and the First People’s Cultural Foundation of British Columbia signed […]
2006 • archive • culture | preservation • First Nations • FirstVoices • indigenous language • language | preservation • multimedia • Tagish • Tlingit • YukonEthnography Beyond Text and Print: How the digital can transform ethnographic expressions
Excerpt I’m not advocating for abolishing academic book publishing. Others have and have discussed the economic and ideological structure that supports academic publishing and valorizes the monograph.) Instead, I want to make room for a serious consideration of ethnographic expressions that are not strictly based in text, either in the […]
2013 • culture • digital humanities • ethnography • fieldwork • multimedia • publishing • researchScalar: open source, media-rich scholarly publishing platform
Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required. […]
digital humanities • multimedia • open source • platform • publishing • semantic webVectors: Journal of Cultural and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
Vectors maps the multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era, crystallizing around themes that highlight the social, political, and cultural stakes of our increasingly technologically-mediated existence. As such, the journal speaks both implicitly and explicitly to key debates across varied disciplines, including issues of globalization, mobility, power, […]
culture • digital tools • multimedia • research • technology • Vectors JournalDigital Dynamics Across Cultures
Introduction (excerpt) Digital Dynamics Across Cultures re-imagines the work of anthropology in the age of digital reproduction, and, by extension, explores the cross-cultural implications of several seeming truisms of the electronic era. While the libertarian impulses and voices fueling the gold rush mentality of Silicon Valley’s dot.com period often insisted […]
2008 • aboriginal • anthropology • cultural protocols • multimedia • representation • reproduction • Vectors Journal • WarumunguStoryBank: Mobile Digital Storytelling in a Development Context
A paper by David M. Frohlich, Dorothy Rachovides, Kiriaki Riga, Ramnath Bhat, Maxine Frank, Eran Edirisinghe, Dhammike Wickramanayaka, Matt Jones and Will Harwood (2009) Abstract Mobile imaging and digital storytelling currently support a growing practice of multimedia communication in the West. In this paper we describe a project which explores […]
2009 • development • digital storytelling • HCI4D • human computer interaction • India • mobile • multimediaMultimedia technology & Indigenous language revitalization: Practical educational tools and applications
Abstract This dissertation reports findings from a study documenting the use of multimedia technology among Indigenous language communities to assist language learners, speakers, instructors, and institutions learn about multimedia technologies that have contributed to Indigenous language revitalization, education, documentation, preservation, and maintenance. The overall study used an adapted technacy framework […]
2010 • endangered language • indigenous communities • language | preservation • multimedia • revitalizationLenape Talking Dictionary
Welcome to the Lenape Talking Dictionary – the official online dictionary of Lenape – the language of the Delaware Tribe. The website includes translations, usage examples, photos, and audio recordings of Lenape words, phrases and stories. Please read the Introduction Section for instructions on how to use the features. Select the red speaker […]
Delaware • dictionary • indigenous language • language | preservation • Lenape • multimediaDigital Himalaya project
A project to develop digital collection, storage and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region. The Digital Himalaya project was designed by Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin as a strategy for archiving and making available ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region. Based at the Department of Social […]
anthropology • digital collections • Himalaya • multimediaIsumaTV: an independent online interactive network of Inuit and Indigenous multimedia
MISSION IsumaTV is an independent online interactive network of Inuit and Indigenous multimedia. IsumaTV uses the power and immediacy of the Web to bring people together to tell stories and support change. Our tools enable Indigenous people to express reality in their own voices: views of the past, anxieties about […]
community media • indigenous aesthetics • Inuit • IsumaTV • multimedia • storytelling • videoLiving Our Indigenous Languages in a Multimedia Technology Enhanced World
About the Event Saturday April 13, 2013 9:30am – 3:30pm Sty-Wet-Tan Hall UBC First Nations Longhouse 1985 West Mall RSVP to this Language Gathering FREE and open to the public Pay parking available in the Fraser River Parkade Please join us for this exciting event that will bring together language […]
indigenous language • language | preservation • multimedia • revitalization