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Author Landzelius, Kyra

Title Native on the Net : Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples in the Virtual Age
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (353 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Native on the net; 2 Remote indigenous communities in Australia: Questions of access, information, and self-determination; 3 Canadian aboriginal peoples tackle e-health: Seeking ownership versus integration; 4 A screen of snow and recognition reigned supreme? Journeys into the homeland of a Greenlandic webpage; 5 On line, off line and in line: The Zapatista rebellion and the uses of technology by Indian women
6 The meta-native and the militant activist: Virtually saving the rainforest7 Amerindian@Caribbean: Internet indigeneity in the electronic generation of Carib and Taino identities; 8 Debating language and identity online: Tongans on the net; 9 Deterritorialized people in hyberspace: Creating and debating Harari identity over the internet; 10 Negotiating nationhood on the net: The case of the Turcomans and Assyrians of Iraq; 11 Discussion lists and public policy on iGhana: Chimps and feral activists
12 The transformation of discourse online: Toward a holistic diagnosis of the nature of social inequality in Burundi13 Ch(c0de): Virtual occupations, encrypted identities, and the Al-Aqsa intifada; 14 Internet counter counter-insurgency: TamilNet.com and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka; 15 Cyberethnography: Reading South Asian digital diasporas; 16 Postscript: Vox populi from the margins?; Index
Summary Exploring the influence of the Internet on the lives of indigenous and diasporic peoples, Kyra Landzelius leads a team of expert anthropologists and ethnographers who go on-site and on-line to explore how a diverse range of indigenous and transnational diasporic communities actually use the Internet. From the Taino Indians of the Caribbean, the U'wa of the Amazon rainforest, and the Tunomans and Assyrians of Iraq, to the Tingas and Zapatistas, Native on the Net is a lively and intriguing exploration of how new technologies have enabled these previously isolated peoples to reach new levels of c
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Subject Indigenous peoples -- Computer network resources -- Congresses
Internet and Indigenous peoples -- Congresses
Internet -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
Information technology -- Social aspects -- Congresses
COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy.
COMPUTERS -- Computer Science.
COMPUTERS -- Data Processing.
COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- General.
COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory.
COMPUTERS -- Reference.
Indigenous peoples -- Computer network resources
Information technology -- Social aspects
Internet
Internet and indigenous peoples
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134501809
1134501803