- Title
- #SOSBlakAustralia: Facebook as a site of Indigenous protest
- Creator
- Kibby, Marjorie; Fulton, Janet
- Relation
- Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture: Our Changing Traditions, Impressions, and Expressions in a Mediated World p. 307-328
- Relation
- https://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440840630/
- Publisher
- Praeger
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- While identity in an online space can be fluid, most Aboriginal Australians embrace their identity in their online interactions and engage with Facebook in a number of ways. It is seen as an environment where individual and collective identity can be tested and accepted, and as a space for the “performance of Aboriginality,” that is, for sharing the information that is seen as a marker of Aboriginal identity. Facebook is also a space for surveillance and self-surveillance, as Facebook users are aware they may be observed and judged for authenticity. It is a place to reconnect with family, particularly in the context of a colonial history that has seen many Aboriginal families torn apart. It is also a place for the formation of communities: intimate and distant, local and global. The sharing of language, rituals, and family information in online spaces enable the development of new communities and renewed connections with Aboriginal culture.
- Subject
- inequality; Indigenous Australians; social media; building community; online activism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1404160
- Identifier
- uon:35282
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781440840630
- Language
- eng
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