Tlowitsis Re-Imagined: The Use of Digital Media to Build Nation and Overcome Disconnection in a Displaced Aboriginal Community

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Author(s): Jon Corbett (University of British Columbia, Canada)and Raquel Mann (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 22
Source title: ICTs for Advancing Rural Communities and Human Development: Addressing the Digital Divide
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Susheel Chhabra (Periyar Management and Computer College, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0047-8.ch011

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Using the case study of the Tlowitsis, a dispersed indigenous community in British Columbia, Canada, this paper explores the role of ICTs, and in particular participatory video, in nation building. Also, the paper identifies factors that affect both the involvement and exclusion of the membership and addresses the challenges faced and lessons learned. ICTs, in particular new media technologies, offer great potential to overcome the geographic barriers caused by dispersal. However, it remains uncertain how they might contribute to the process of nation building. In this regard, the authors present six fundamental requirements for nation building, and then use these requirements to structure an analysis of the Tlowitsis case study.

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