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Published: 2007-05-01

Using/designing digital technologies of representation in Aboriginal Australian knowledge practices

School of Philosophy University of Melbourne Australia
Learning Research Group Charles Darwin University, Australia
indigenous Australian knowledge Yolngu Aboriginal concepts use and design of digital technologies of representation

Abstract

Indigenous Australians are often keen to use digital technologies in their struggle to develop sustainable livelihoods on their own lands. This paper tells of gradually coming to recognize how an Aboriginal Australian elder struggled against the grain of digital technologies designed to represent, in using them in Aboriginal Australian knowledge practices where knowledge is always actively performative rather than representional. The performance of Aboriginal knowledge must express the remaking of an ancestral reality. At the same time, this man exploited possibilities the technologies offered for representation in achieving political ends in dealing with representatives of mainstream Australia.

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How to Cite

Verran, H., & Christie, M. (2007). Using/designing digital technologies of representation in Aboriginal Australian knowledge practices. Human Technology, 3(2), 214–227. https://doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.2007281