Of the more than 300 Million Indigenous Peoples recognized by the
United Nations, a growing minority is actively shaping indigenous visions
of a knowledge-based society. These visions are not simply indigenous
responses to global mainstream debates over post-industrial development
or techno-scientific culture, etc. More importantly, they articulate
the actual deployment of new media and information communications technologies
(ICTs) by indigenous communities to forward their own policies and practices.
They frame how indigenous communities are mobilizing over the internet
and on the Web to communicate their lived experiences and extend their
local networks to global audiences, including and especially, a global
indigenous audience.
For academics in the field, online indigenous communities are opening
up spaces of inquiry beyond the digital divide by actively co-creating
virtual communities and transforming their cultural experience through
ICTs (i.e., real life in cyberspace). Questions about resources, knowledge/power
and access continue to be important, but they have become more complicated
by issues of networking and social life, virtual reproduction, and information
policy. These new social, political, and cultural forms of indigeneity
will be discussed within this section.
- How can/should social sciences describe and explain local indigenous
knowledge production in a potentially global knowledge system? What
are the socio-cultural and political inter-linkages between local
and global?
- How do indigenous communities integrate new media practices and
ICTs into processes of local media production and networking to participate
in socio-cultural life, political movements, economic development,
healthcare, education, and so forth?
- How might indigenous communities’ uses of new media and ICTs
reflect challenges for diversity, conflict, global ethics, pluralism,
gender, youth and heritage?
- What best practices have indigenous organizations developed around
the inter-linkages of knowledge production, new media, ICTs, and local/global
community networks (that could inform practitioners and scholars)?
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Nach Angaben der Vereinten Nationen sind weltweit rund 300 Millionen
Angehörige Indigener Völker von den rezenten und rasanten
Entwicklungen, welche die Transformation der Informations- zur Wissensgesellschaft
kennzeichnen, betroffen. Der als "Digital Divide" geführte
Diskurs zu Globalisierungsprozessen verlagert nicht nur die Produktion
und Kontrolle von Wissen in zunehmendem Maße von den Zentren in
jene Peripherie, in den diese Menschen tatsächlich leben. Diese
scheinbar neue Form der Vergesellschaftung, welche die unterschiedlichsten
sozialen, kulturellen und ökonomischen Kontexte von Indigenen beeinflusst,
wird in der Sektion mittels interdisziplinärer Beiträge beleuchtet.
- Wie sieht das Verhältnis von lokalen indigenen Wissen und "modernen
globalen" Wissen aus?
- Wie gestaltet sich in Indigenen Gemeinschaften die Integration von Medientechnologien
in demokratiepolitisch relevanter Art und Weise und in Bezug auf diverse
Formen von Ökonomie und Bildung?
- Welche Bereiche der neuen Kommunikationsformen, welche die Wissensgesellschaft
kennzeichnen, können Indigene Organisationen tatsächlich nutzen?
- Welche Rolle spielen Konzepte wie Kultur, Religion oder Geschichte für
Indigene Gemeinschaften in einer globalen Wissensgesellschaft?
- Welche best practice Modelle haben Indigene Organisationen und Institutionen
lokal und international entwickelt?
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