Indigenous Cultures: From Observing to Experiencing, from Videography to 3D VR Immersion

Session Details

Speaker(s)

• Linc Kesler, Director & Associate Professor, First Nations Studies Program, The University of British Columbia
• Ulrich Rauch, Professor, The Learning Centre, University of Trinidad and Tobago
• Session convener: David S. Levin, Senior Director of Academic Technology, California State University, Northridge

Abstract

A challenge arises in making digital information and communication technologies accessible to indigenous communities. From digital preservation of cultural and historic artifacts to embedding culturally sensitive materials in academic courses, technology can become a double-edged sword: it can be deployed to obfuscate a critical analysis of how "communication" is understood as meaningful by First Nations themselves.

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http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/IndigenousCulturesFr/45586