Narrating Aboriginality On-Line: Digital Storytelling, Identity and Healing

Digital story-telling is a counter-narrative of healing for many indigenous youth in Canada today. As much as e-health technologies are valuable and empowering an interventionist presumption limits the potential value of digital communication as a healing resource. With examples from three digital s...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Journal of Community Informatics
Main Authors: Adelson, Naomi, Olding, Michelle
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Waterloo Library 2012
Subjects:
Access
Community Information
Social Cohesion
Digital Storytelling
First Nations
Youth
Canada
Online Access:https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/3167
https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v9i2.3167
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Summary:Digital story-telling is a counter-narrative of healing for many indigenous youth in Canada today. As much as e-health technologies are valuable and empowering an interventionist presumption limits the potential value of digital communication as a healing resource. With examples from three digital story-telling sites, we explore the internet as both a social space and therapeutic tool where indigenous youth are constructing and negotiating Aboriginality through online story sharing. Those digital stories, like other narrative forms, are part of a larger complex of contemporary forms of healing.

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