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Indigenous Digital Life: The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social Media

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 259 pp.

Contains index

ISBN 978-3-030-84796-8 (ebook); 978-3-030-84795-1 (print)

"Indigenous Digital Life offers a broad, wide-ranging account of how social media has become embedded in the lives of indigenous Australians. Centring on ten core themes-including identity, community, hate, desire and death-we seek to understand both the practice and broader politics of being Indigenous on social media. Rather than reproducing settler narratives of Indigenous 'deficiency', we approach Indigenous social media as a space of Indigenous action, production, and creativity; we see Indigenous social media users as powerful agents, who interact with and shape their immediate worlds with skill, flair and nous; and instead of being 'a people of the past', we show that indigenous digital life is often future-orientated, working towards building better relations, communities and worlds." (Publisher description)
Openings: The Social Life of Indigenous Social Media, 1
Identity, 21
Community, 47
Hate [Anti-Indigenous Racism], 71
Desire, 95
Fun, 121
Death, 141
Activism, 165
Histories, 189
Allies, 213
Futures, 237