Decolonizing the Digital: First Peoples' On-Line Presence
From the use of social media during the Idle No More movement to the growth of on-line magazines and educational platforms, Canada's First Peoples are increasingly using the internet as a space of resistance, community development, and as a platform for sharing and preserving language and tradition. The essay collection Decolonizing the Digital: First Peoples' On-Line Presence will merge Digital Humanities with Indigenous Studies in order to explore how First Peoples are mobilizing various on-line formats in the service of cultural protection and dissemination.
Possible essay topics could include:
Language apps
Social media and protest/resistance
Interactive website, such as Pearson Education's The Ruptured Sky: The War of 1812
Online graphic novels
The role of podcasts
Bias in digital archiving
Storytelling/orature websites, such as the Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling and Video Game Development
The role of Youtube in cultural sharing
The use of digital resources in the classroom
Please forward your essay or essay proposal to Jesse Archibald-Barber, Associate Professor, First Nations University of Canada (jbarber@fnuniv.ca) and to Jessica Langston, Adjunct Professor, Concordia University (jessica.langston@concordia.ca).
Essay proposals 500-1000 words; Essays 2000-8000 words