The first crowdsourcing campaign that caught my attention was in about January 2015. It was for the Food Justice Truck at the Asylum Seeker resource Centre in Footscray. The centre exists to support people seeking asylum in Australia and who have lost many of the rights that we all take for granted. An example is …
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Stop playing Fortnite!
This blog is a reflection about the social media game “Fortnite” and the gaming habits of professional athletes and in particular, my cousin a young and brilliant athlete! The game “Fortnite” is described as “a survival game where 100 players fight against each other in player versus player combat to be the last one standing.” …
Social media and Aboriginal health on the homelands
For this blog I am speaking about Aboriginal people living in remote communities’ called homelands and how social media has improved their health outcomes. I was lucky enough to live in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) for over 8 years during the 1980’s – 1990’s. Such a beautiful and culturally alive place, the MacDonell Ranges, the striking …
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Trolling and social media conflict: Being Young and Indigenous and online …….
In the recent survey “Social Media Mob: Being Indigenous Online” which has been previously sited in these blogs, 88 per cent of the Aboriginal survey respondents have seen or experienced racism towards Indigenous people while on social media. Coupled with the reported high usage and Indigenous people more than ever before networking and communicating online …
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Activism and protest: I saw it on Facebook, and I heard it on YouTube…….
As stated in my previous blog Indigenous Australian are increasingly using social media at a rate higher than non-Indigenous Australians (Carlson B & Frazer R, 2018). As an Aboriginal woman I use it to connect to my Ngarrindjeri mob via a Facebook page called Ngarrindjeri and Proud. We share and maintain traditional knowledge, Lore and …
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Politics and civic cultures: If the world wide web and social media had existed from 1788……
From my perspective, a proud Ngarrindjeri woman, I believe Australia has a black and cruel history. The impact of invasion and colonialisation on the Indigenous people of this land has resulted in severed cultural practices, the dispossession of land, inter-generational trauma, forced removal of children, disproportionate rates of criminalisation and incarceration, economic exclusion and poverty …
How are our social experiences in each of these contexts bound up with social media platforms and their affordances, and how we make use of them?
As a mother of grown boys, I can clearly remember when they were much younger thinking why were they spending so much time online, alone, and not meeting up with their mates, grabbing an ice-cream together or going to the cinema, especially during the long hot summer holidays. It was the constant subject being discussed …
Is WordPress a blog or a social network site
Is WordPress a blog or a social network site? To answer this question, it is helpful to first understand what WordPress is, and what a blog and a social network site are. WordPress Reading the WordPress website, the original developers Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg in 2003 set out to create an “elegant, well-architected personal …
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