The benefits of technology are easily noticed. The Web and other technological devices do allow indigenious people an opportunity to explore and investigate their culture. People can often find traditional skills that may have otherwise been lost. However there has been a much research done on the overuse of technology.
Therefore, I wish to explore the drawbacks or negative side-effects of this over technological use on indigenious people. This topic may seem broad in scope. How do we judge what is overuse of technology? Which negative aspects of techuse do I wish to explore: the medical, the environmental, or the social? I will focus my research on the personal impact of technological use as it affects or alters one’s life. I wish to explore if technology is taking away the self-identity, or cultural identity of indigenious people, – an identity that, without technology, would remain.
I will explore articles and sites on technology versus self-identity and cultural identity. I will also examine data on technological use for indigenious and non-indigenious groups.
Below is a list of some sites, articles, and research that may be used along with the information from my modules.
- http://www.utexas.edu/courses/sami/diehtu/giella/lit/preserve-indg.htm The Struggle to preserve Indigienious Identity as Related to the Sami, or Fishing by M .Sophia Vassilakidis
- http://www.scu.edu/sts/nexus/summer2001/MolonyArticle.cfm Technology & Identity: Is rapidly accelerating technology eroding our sense of who we are? by Barbara Molony of Santa Clara University (2004)
- http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ph-sp/determinants/determinants-eng.php#healthychild What makes Canadians Healthy or Unhealthy by The Public Health Agency of Canada (2013)
- http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/hp-ps/dca-dea/prog-ini/ahsunc-papacun/aboriginal-autochtones-eng.php Aboriginal children : the healing power of cultural identity by The Public Health Agency of Canada (2013)
- Reclaiming Indigenious Voice by Marie Battiste, UBC press, (2002)
- http://www.kta.on.ca/pdf/AboriginalCultureinaDigitalAge.pdf “Aboriginal Culture in the Digital Age” Aboriginal Voice Cultural Working Group Paper (2000)
- http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/?id=9432 Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom, by UBC Indigenious Foundations.arts.ubc.ca (2009)
Look into the effect of a switch from asynchronous communication ( literature and media) on oral societies, and how this affects perception and logic. Specifically reference Walter Ong’s work on Orality and Literacy; see: http://lmc.gatech.edu/~broglio/introSTaC/ong_writing_consciousness.pdf or http://monoskop.org/images/f/ff/Ong,_Walter_J_-_Orality_and_Literacy,_2nd_ed.pdf
Thanks David,
I’ll Check these out. I had not thought of using perception as part of the topic, or even in my searches. Or course what really is identity if not just a perception, either that which you have of yourself or someone else has of you. 🙂
Darren