Narrating Aboriginality On-Line: Digital Storytelling, Identity and Healing

Authors

  • Naomi Adelson York University
  • Michelle Olding McGill University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v9i2.3167

Keywords:

Access, Community Information, Social Cohesion, Digital Storytelling, First Nations, Youth, Canada

Abstract

Digital story-telling is a counter-narrative of healing for many indigenous youth in Canada today.  As much as e-health technologies are valuable and empowering an interventionist presumption limits the potential value of digital communication as a healing resource. With examples from three digital story-telling sites, we explore the internet as both a social space and therapeutic tool where indigenous youth  are constructing and negotiating Aboriginality through online story sharing. Those digital stories, like other narrative forms, are part of a larger complex of contemporary forms of healing.

 

Author Biography

Naomi Adelson, York University

Department of Anthropology, Associate Professor

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Published

2012-11-28