Native on the Net : indigenous and diasporic peoples in the virtual age / edited by Kyra Landzelius.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : native on the net / Kyra Landzelius -- 2. Remote indigenous communities in Australia : questions of access, information, and self-determination / Alopi S. Latukefu -- 3. Canadian aboriginal peoples tackle e-health : seeking ownership versus integration / Valerie Gideon -- 4. A screen of snow and recognition reigned supreme? : journeys into the homeland of a greenlandic webpage / Neil Blair Christensen -- 5. On line, off line and in line : the Zapatista rebellion and the uses of technology by indian women / Marisa Belausteguigoitia -- 6. The meta-native and the militant activist : virtually saving the rainforest / Kyra Landzelius -- 7. Amerindian@Caribbean : Internet indigeneity in the electronic generation of Carib and Taino identities / Maximilian C. Forte -- 8. Debating language and identity online : Tongans on the net / Helen Iil -- 9. Deterritorialized people in hyberspace : creating and debating Harari identity over the Internet / Camilla Gibb -- 10. Negotiating nationhood on the net : the case of the Turcomans and Assyrians of Iraq / Hala Fattah -- 11. Discussion lists and public policy on iGhana : chimps and feral activists / John Philip Schaefer -- 12. The transformation of discourse online : toward a holistic diagnosis of the nature of social inequality in Burundi / Rose M. Kadende-Kaiser -- 13. Ch(cOde) : virtual occupations, encrypted identities, and the Al-Aqsa intifada / William C. Taggart -- 14. Internet counter counter-insurgency : TamilNet.com and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka / Mark Whitaker -- 15. Cyberethnography : reading South Asian digital diasporas / Radhika Gajjala -- 16. Postscript : Vox populi from the margins? / Kyra Landzelius.

"Internet technology is transforming the lives of disenfranchised and politically marginalized people around the world - Tongas, Inuits, Native Amazonians, Hopi Indians and, most notoriously, the Zapatistas of Mexico. Crossing physical and political borders and working in a virtual space that evades policing, the web is used especially to broadcast alternative political agendas, but also for web discussion and online networking that creates new forms of protest, community and solidarity. Going Native on the Net goes on-site to explore at first hand the lives and agendas of the indigenous and diasporic people who seek change through the internet, and who use it to subvert power structures of globalisation, nation state and multinationalism. Case studies come from Europe, the Pacific, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Native North America, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia and South Asia"--Publisher.

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