Digital lives in postcolonial Aboriginal Australia

In this article, the authors relate brief stories of episodes spanning a period of 10 years when they worked with Australian Aboriginal groups and individuals as they incorporated digital technologies into their cultural practices. Their story telling is leavened with a dissonant working imaginary d...

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Published inJournal of material culture Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 299 - 317
Main Authors Christie, Michael, Verran, Helen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.09.2013
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Aboriginal Australians
Asian culture
Australia
Communication
Communications technology
Computers
Cultural practices
Decolonization
Digital divide
Imagination
Native peoples
Postcolonialism
Story telling
Australia
cultural practices
Indigenous
object lessons
working imaginary
Analogy
communication technology
computers
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Summary:In this article, the authors relate brief stories of episodes spanning a period of 10 years when they worked with Australian Aboriginal groups and individuals as they incorporated digital technologies into their cultural practices. Their story telling is leavened with a dissonant working imaginary designed to interrupt both itself and the stories. As their stories of their digital lives proceed, however, the carefully contrived, resourceful dissonance unexpectedly recedes as the new and surprising digital lives that form part of their collectives evade the grasp of their interrupting tool.
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ISSN:1359-1835
1460-3586
DOI:10.1177/1359183513492081