Information & Communication Technologies

The authors explore the ways that the design of two different Indigenous video games compels players to enact survivance, and how that experience of survivance creates a space for teaching and learning about culture and for decolonizing perspectives.

English Thesis (M.A.)--East Carolina University, 2016 Refers to Louise Erdrich's novel The Round House, Christine Welsh's documentary Finding Dawn, and Qwo-Li Driskall's poetry collection Walking with Ghosts.

Looks at the use of new media forms, such as computers and the Internet, as tools for decolonization within Aboriginal communities.

A discussion about digital technologies and its impact on Indigenous women in regards to violence and privacy and its connection to promoting colonial ideology.

Data gathered from law enforcement records, state and national databases, media coverage, social media, and community family member accounts. Includes data broken down by state / region.

A report that discusses the mainstream media's coverage and the response by the law enforcement agencies to murdered and missing Indigenous females in American cities.

Discusses how Aboriginal women experience race-, class-, and gender-based violence due to the effects of colonization, and how activism such as the Native Women's Association of Canad's Sisters in Spirit initiative, Christi Belcourt's Walking With Our Sisters art installation piece, and the #MMIW, #AmINext, and #ImNotNext campaigns serve to raise awareness of the issue and counteract portrayals found in the mainstream press.

Discusses the importance of grassroots movements and social media to educate the general public about the impact of colonization and patriarchy in regards to violence against Indigenous women.

Using the Photovoice method to explore the experiences of Indigenous women accessing HIV/AIDS care and how this research can help to identify barriers to proper health care.

Examines mHealth interventions among Indigenous populations to evaluate its cultural responsiveness and clinical effectiveness.

Looks at election-related tweets which carried hashtag #MMIW; content analysis showed that they mostly commonly conveyed hope, anger and disgust. Paper from: SMSociety '16: Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society.

Looks at a group, the Regina First Nations Language Speaking Circle, formed to keep First Nations languages from vanishing, including posting phrases and lessons on the internet. Article located by scrolling to page 19.

Includes strategies for finding content on the world wide web, five main questions to ask when assessing credibility and validity of sites, and suggestions for other resources which should be used in conjunction with materials found on the Internet.

Webinar focusing on research conducted by the Urban Indian Health Institute to develop a database regarding missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, key findings from the initiative, and future directions. Duration: 50:56.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Graz, 2021. Focuses on Barking Water and Mekko directed by Sterlin Harjo, and Rhymes for Young Ghouls directed by Jeff Barnaby.

Discusses how classroom teaching can be augmented with use of the internet, databases, and culturally specific websites. As examples author uses Flight by Sherman Alexie, the 3D virtual space Second Life, and direct email communication between students and writers. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 48.

Authors argue that computer-facilitated learning in Indigenous communities will lead to cultural transformation and the erosion of cultural diversity leaving behind a digital and technologically dependent monoculture.

Speaker discusses history of colonization in the Pacific Islands, characteristics of the Pasifika community in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and her research into how young adults are using social media to express identity. Duration: 40:15.

Article examines the use of gaming and other communication technologies as strategies for resistance, survivance and cultural resurgence; discusses practices of re/mapping, kinship-making and relationality.

Contains disaggregated data for Māori.

Short fiction piece. When two friends develop an app for mobile devices the results are much different than they expect.

[Political and Cultural Studies] Thesis--Swansea University, 2013.

Indicates off-reserve First Nations people are as likely to use the internet as non-Aboriginal people. Uses data from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the 2000 General Social Survey.

Looks at the role digital technologies play in the preservation of documentary media. Session 2 of 3. Duration: 54:00.

Overview of the virtual face of Indigenous people expressed through self-authoring engagements, websites, chat, emails or other applications. To access this article scroll down to page 6.

Interview with the founding editor of Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education; Boyer reflects on the journal and on the new challenges that tribal communities face in the new information age.

Uses two examples of critical heritage discourses—social media debate surrounding Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, and an undergraduate history education course which focused on the production of counter histories—to illustrate how critical heritage studies can expand the discussion and challenge traditional thinking around national memory and settler-colonial narratives.

Looks at the use of photovoice and postervoice to connect with and provide a voice to Indigenous youth in regards to water and health issues on their reserves.

Article considers the online platform used in the game Kisima Inŋitchuŋa (Never Alone) as a “place” where people gather and examines the ways that Inuit culture, values and sovereignty are taught and engaged with in those spaces.

Authors examine the ways that video games can be and are used as a tool for language and cultural survivance and resurgence.

Discusses the creation of a hybrid culture in Inuit communities that employed technology as means to sustain their own traditional ways of life rather than replacing it.

Article describes the collaborative community-centered approach used to create a culturally relevant health information video targeting the Inuit community of Kikiaq (Rigolet) with information about acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI).

Speaker discusses ongoing activism by Hawaiians to assert sovereignty and protect their environment, the movement to stop the construction of a new telescope on the sacred peak of Mauna Kea, and how it has been utilizing social media. Duration 51:11.

Looks at how First Nations and Inuit communities are using broadband networks and information and communication technologies; and discusses the broadband projects and federal broadband Initiatives in First Nations and Inuit communities.

Looks at the performance project Radio Healer that combines traditional Indigenous music and performances with modern digital technologies. From PDC '14: Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Industry Cases, Workshop Descriptions, Doctoral Consortium papers, and Keynote abstracts -- Volume 2

A brief profile of the Indigenous RAVEN (De)Briefs Podcast hosted by Susan Smitten that explores contemporary Indigenous issues.

Criminal Justice Thesis (M.A.)--Edith Cowan University, 2018.

Literary criticism article considers author Blake Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears arguing that the text harnesses the science fiction genre to criticize not only the historical “Trail of Tears,” but also the ongoing romanization of the narrative in the United States.

Examination of the internet through Inuit perspectives.

Author critically engages the format and storytelling devices within the videogame Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) and discusses how this and other digital platforms can be used to build understanding and counter stereotypes and misinformation about Indigenous peoples.

Discusses expansion of US military across the region and the resistance to the move utilizing social media.

Authors use a critical making methodology to engage with the Zuni Pueblo people in the digital humanities project, Zuni Language Materials Collection; argue that collaboration with members of the community of creation dramatically improved item description, collection discoverability and collection interactivity.

Describes how a sample of adolescents interpreted and acted upon disclosures of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation on Facebook or Twitter and what resources they felt were needed.

Discusses debates surrounding ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and looks at three Indigenous initiatives: Igloolik Isuma, "Us Mob", and "Raven Tales" projects. Chapter 8 from The Media and Social Theory edited by David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee.

Comments on disrespectful and disparaging remarks made in movies and the use of social media to rid racist imagery from a variety of platforms.

Looks at grassroots community mobilization which is propelled by the Feeding My Family Facebook initiative.

Using a virtual reality residential school to examine the logic of genocide prevention.

Author discusses the violent social media response Tanya Tagaq received after having posted a photo of her daughter next to a harvested seal; uses the incident to illustrate how colonial violence disproportionately targets Aboriginal women.