Virtual Tribe - Indigenous Identity in Social Media

In the post-colonial era, tribal peoples are particularly vulnerable to new technologies and industrialization, which threaten their cultures, homelands and ways of living. However, there is a surprising exception to this trend in the form of social media.
This book explores how tribal and indigenous peoples across the globe are using social media such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in fresh and inventive ways unique to their values and lifestyles.
These platforms help tribal peoples to communicate across boundaries and barriers as never before, and are helping to strengthen communal identity and development in the global age.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments縤x

Introduction�BR>
I. Social Media in an Indigenous World�

II. The Front Room�

#virtualenvironmentalism: Taking Refuge�

#virtualprotest: Separate but Equalish�

#virtualsovereignty: A Tiger's Tale�

III. The Back Room�

#virtualcampsite: All My Relations�5

#virtualshiq: Peace Be Upon Yo�5

#virtualkingdom: In the Lap of the Hills�4

Conclusion�3

Epilogue�7

Bibliography�9

Index�3

About the author

Steven C. Dinero is the former executive director of the Carbon County Museum in Rawlins, Wyoming.

Product details

• Authors: Steven C. Dinero, Dinero Steven C.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2020
• EAN: 9781476674704
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-7470-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 254 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; COMPUTERS / Networking / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Computer networking & communications, Computer networking and communications, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity, Tribal people; indigenous