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CALL FOR PAPERS: Decolonizing the Digital: First Peoples’ On-Line Presence

From the use of social media during the Idle No More movement to the growth of on-line magazines and educational platforms, Canada’s First Peoples are increasingly using the internet as a space of resistance, community development, and as a platform for sharing and preserving language and tradition. The essay collection Decolonizing the Digital: First Peoples’ On-Line Presence will merge Digital Humanities with Indigenous Studies in order to explore how First Peoples are mobilizing various on-line formats in the service of cultural protection and dissemination.

•  Possible essay topics could include:
•  Language apps
• Social media and protest/resistance
• Interactive website, such as Pearson Education’s The Ruptured Sky: The War of 1812
• Online graphic novels
• The role of podcasts
• Bias in digital archiving
• Storytelling/orature websites, such as the Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling and Video Game Development
• The role of Youtube in cultural sharing
• The use of digital resources in the classroom

Please forward your essay or essay proposal to Jesse Archibald-Barber, Associate Professor, First Nations University of Canada (jbarber@fnuniv.ca) and to Jessica Langston, Adjunct Professor, Concordia University (jessica.langston@concordia.ca).
Essay proposals 500-1000 words; Essays 2000-8000 words
Deadline for proposals: Feb. 15, 2015
Deadline for essays: May 15, 2015
Website with CFP: http://www.indigenousliterarystudies.org/decolonizing-the-digital/