Native on the Net

The Internet is increasingly being used by marginalized ethnic groups to create a form of community and unified political voice. This book explores the lives and agendas of these web users and the political effects of their online activity.

1. Introduction 2. Remote Indigenous Communities in Australia: Connectivity, Information and Self-Determination 3. A Screen of Snow: Semi-Nomadic Journeys into the Homeland of Inuit Webpages 4. Canadian First Nations Telemedicine 5. Zapatista Women's CyberActivism 6. Amazon on (the) Line: Indians, Oil, and Activism 7. Amerindian@Caribbean: The Electronic Generation of Carib and Taino Indigeneity 8. Debating Language and Identity Online: Tongan Islanders over the World Wide Web 9. Deterriotorialized People in Hyperspace: Creating Harari Virtual Identity 10. Nationhood as a Field of Dreams: Turcomans and Assyrians on the 'Net 11. Diaspora Agency: Chimps and Feral Activists in Ghana 12. Diagonising Social Inequality in Burundi: Hutus and Tutsis in Virtual Reconciliation 13. (cOde): Virtual Occupations and Hacker Wars on Palestinian and Israeli Websites 14. Cyberethnography: Reading South Asian Digital Diasporas 16: Indigenizing the Internet? Contributors Index