Inuit in Cyberspace
Author | : Neil Blair Christensen |
Publisher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2003 |
ISBN-10 | : 8772897236 |
ISBN-13 | : 9788772897233 |
Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Download or read book Inuit in Cyberspace written by Neil Blair Christensen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cyber-ethnography, Neil Blair Christensen explores the processes by which a wide selection of personal, local, cultural and national identities are expressed and understood on the Internet. The different Inuit peoples of the circumpolar Arctic have always taken active part in the world, but their contemporary use of Internet(s) has affected even more their relative isolation -- one that comes from living in a peripheral region of the world. Yet, Inuit and others are constructing web pages with social and physical references that sustain an imagined Arctic remoteness; a logic that seems to be a key aspect of Inuit identities and cultures. The book brings together in analysis and discussion the realities of contemporary Inuit, the myth of cyberspace and a selection of dynamic strategies for identification. It concludes that Inuit dynamically remain Inuit, in all their diversity, regardless of an imagined compression of time and space; their use of changing technologies, or participation in enlarged social networks.