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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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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University of Waterloo Library
2012
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Online Access: | https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/3167 https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v9i2.3167 |
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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