Sami-digital storytelling: Survivance and revitalization in Indigenous digital games
This article examines how digital games on Sami culture can draw attention to Indigenous issues when produced in collaboration with Sami community members. Through a case study that probes the design, game mechanics, and user experience of Gufihtara eallu (2018), this article frames Indigenous digit...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/14614448211038902 2023-05-15T18:10:24+02:00 Sami-digital storytelling: Survivance and revitalization in Indigenous digital games Nijdam, Elizabeth “Biz” 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448211038902 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14614448211038902 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/14614448211038902 en eng SAGE Publications https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ CC-BY-NC New Media & Society page 146144482110389 ISSN 1461-4448 1461-7315 Sociology and Political Science Communication journal-article 2021 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211038902 2022-04-14T04:54:24Z This article examines how digital games on Sami culture can draw attention to Indigenous issues when produced in collaboration with Sami community members. Through a case study that probes the design, game mechanics, and user experience of Gufihtara eallu (2018), this article frames Indigenous digital games and game development as a form of digital storytelling that is able to educate players on Indigenous knowledge systems and intangble cultural heritage. By looking at the way Gufihtara eallu engages Sami oral traditions in particular, this article demonstrates how digital games are capable of embodying Indigenous methodologies in such a way as to not flatten understandings of Indigenous traditions to a mythologized historical moment; instead, games produced by and for Indigenous people are capable of presenting storytelling traditions as contemporary, interactive, and constantly evolving, incorporating traditional themes as much as contemporary issues that are being perpetually redefined by modern Sami experience and new technologies. Article in Journal/Newspaper sami sami SAGE Publications (via Crossref) New Media & Society 146144482110389 |
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This article examines how digital games on Sami culture can draw attention to Indigenous issues when produced in collaboration with Sami community members. Through a case study that probes the design, game mechanics, and user experience of Gufihtara eallu (2018), this article frames Indigenous digital games and game development as a form of digital storytelling that is able to educate players on Indigenous knowledge systems and intangble cultural heritage. By looking at the way Gufihtara eallu engages Sami oral traditions in particular, this article demonstrates how digital games are capable of embodying Indigenous methodologies in such a way as to not flatten understandings of Indigenous traditions to a mythologized historical moment; instead, games produced by and for Indigenous people are capable of presenting storytelling traditions as contemporary, interactive, and constantly evolving, incorporating traditional themes as much as contemporary issues that are being perpetually redefined by modern Sami experience and new technologies. |
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Sami-digital storytelling: Survivance and revitalization in Indigenous digital games |
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Sami-digital storytelling: Survivance and revitalization in Indigenous digital games |
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