Indigenous People and Mobile Technologies

Herausgeber: Dyson, Laurel Evelyn; Hendriks, Max; Grant, Stephen

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how mobile technologies are overcoming disadvantage and the tyrannies of distance, allowing benefits to flow directly to Indigenous people and bringing wide-ranging changes to their lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781138793316
• ISBN-10: 1138793310
• Artikelnr.: 42744418

Autorenporträt

Laurel Evelyn Dyson is a Senior Lecturer in Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney, and President of anzMLearn, the Australian and New Zealand Mobile Learning Group. Dr Dyson's research interests centre on Indigenous people's adoption of mobile technologies, as well as the use of mobile technologies in education. Stephen Grant is a Lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney. Since 2002 he has taken a key position in the Indigenous Participation in IT Program, UTS. He is one of a small number of qualified Indigenous IT professionals working in Australia. He researchs mobile networks and autonomous systems. Max Hendriks lectures in Internetworking at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has been an educator for over 40 years. His research interests are in Internetworking and how Indigenous people and their innovative use of technology. Of particular interest to him are security technologies within wireless networks.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Framing the Indigenous Mobile Revolution Laurel Evelyn Dyson Part I:
Indigenous Mobile Technology Adoption and Theoretical Perspectives 2. Why
Mobile? Indigenous People and Mobile Technologies at the Edge Fiona Brady
and Laurel Evelyn Dyson 3. The Case for Play in the Developing World:
Lessons from Rah Island, Vanuatu Pedro Ferreira and Kristina Höök 4.
Ecosystemic Innovation for Indigenous People in Latin America Paul Kim,
Karla Alfaro and Leigh Anne Miller 5. The Indigenous Digital Collectif: The
Translation of Mobile Phones among the iTadian Gino Orticio 6. Private
Mobile Phones and Public Communication Drums in Rural Papua New Guinea
Amanda H. A. Watson and Lee R. Duffield Part II: Self-Determination for
Indigenous People through Mobile Technologies 7. Keewaytinook Mobile: An
Indigenous Community-Owned Mobile Phone Service in Northern Canada Brian
Beaton, Terence Burnard and Adi Linden and Susan O'Donnell 8. MOJO in
Remote Indigenous Communities Ivo Burum 9. Mobile Technology in Indigenous
Landscapes Coppélie Cocq Part III: Mobiles for Health, Education and
Development 10. Using Technology to Promote Health and Wellbeing among
American Indian and Alaska Native Teens and Young Adults Stephanie Craig
Rushing, Amanda Gaston, Carol Kaufman, Christine Markham, Cornelia Jessen,
Gwenda Gorman, Jennifer Torres, Kirsten Black, Ross Shegog, Taija Koogei
Revels, Travis L. Lane and Jennifer Williamson 11. The Use of Podcasts to
Improve the Pronunciation of the M¿ori Language and Develop Reflective
Learning Skills Lisa J. Switalla-Byers 12. Integrating Multimedia in ODL
Materials and Enhanced Access through Mobile Phones Maria Augusti and
Doreen Richard Mushi 13. Mobile Phones in Rural South Africa: Stories of
Empowerment from the Siyakhula Living Lab Lorenzo Dalvit 14. Socio-Economic
Impacts on the Adoption of Mobile Phones by the Major Indigenous
Nationalities of Nepal Sojen Pradhan and Gyanendra Bajracharya Part IV:
Cultural and Language Revitalization through Mobile Technologies 15.
Cultural Hybridity, Resilience and the Communication of Contemporary
Cherokee Culture through Mobile Technologies Kevin Kemper 16. eToro:
Appropriating ICTs for the Management of Penans' Indigenous Botanical
Knowledge Tariq Zaman, Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer and Alvin Yeo Wee 17.
Language Vitalization through Mobile and Online Technologies in British
Columbia Peter Brand, Tracey Herbert and Shay Boechler 18. The Influence of
Mobile Phones on the Languages and Cultures of Papua New Guinea Olga Temple
19. An Example of Excellence: Chickasaw Language Revitalization through
Technology Traci L. Morris Epilogue Laurel Evelyn Dyson, Stephen Grant and
Max Hendriks