Missing in my earlier posts in regards to Identity and social media is how it is politically controlled and distributed. In my more recent posts, you will see that I have begun to situate how histories and politics continue to silence Indigenous people or decide for them who they are and what health or care they need or should have. Similarly, social media can be seen as settler colonialism due to the long times that it was unavailable to remote communities until more recently. This demonstrates a sense of ignorant behaviour to Indigenous people again. Alike how officials have yet helped Indigenous people with their contaminated water, this article also demonstrates “Indigenous Elimination” through their exclusion of Indigenous people early on in the roll out of internet use and social media use, but also through racism and cyber bullying that Indigenous people are especially susceptible to. Again, drawing on the same colonialism racism and bullying that occurred in and after residential schools.
Frazer, R., Carlson, B., & Farrelly, T. (2022). Indigenous articulations of social media and digital assemblages of care. Digital Geography and Society, 3, 1-10.