Indigenous Interfaces

Indigenous Interfaces
Author :
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 305
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780816538003
ISBN-13 : 081653800X
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Indigenous Interfaces by : Jennifer Gómez Menjívar

Download or read book Indigenous Interfaces written by Jennifer Gómez Menjívar and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural preservation, linguistic revitalization, intellectual heritage, and environmental sustainability became central to Indigenous movements in Mexico and Central America after 1992. While the emergence of these issues triggered important conversations, none to date have examined the role that new media has played in accomplishing their objectives. Indigenous Interfaces provides the first thorough examination of indigeneity at the interface of cyberspace. Correspondingly, it examines the impact of new media on the struggles for self-determination that Indigenous peoples undergo in Mexico and Central America. The volume’s contributors highlight the fresh approaches that Mesoamerica’s Indigenous peoples have given to new media—from YouTubing Maya rock music to hashtagging in Zapotec. Together, they argue that these cyberspatial activities both maintain tradition and ensure its continuity. Without considering the implications of new technologies, Indigenous Interfaces argues, twenty-first-century indigeneity in Mexico and Central America cannot be successfully documented, evaluated, and comprehended. Indigenous Interfaces rejects the myth that indigeneity and information technology are incompatible through its compelling analysis of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and new media. The volume illustrates how Indigenous peoples are selectively and strategically choosing to interface with cybertechnology, highlights Indigenous interpretations of new media, and brings to center Indigenous communities who are resetting modes of communication and redirecting the flow of information. It convincingly argues that interfacing with traditional technologies simultaneously with new media gives Indigenous peoples an edge on the claim to autonomous and sovereign ways of being Indigenous in the twenty-first century. Contributors Arturo Arias Debra A. Castillo Gloria Elizabeth Chacón Adam W. Coon Emiliana Cruz Tajëëw Díaz Robles Mauricio Espinoza Alicia Ivonne Estrada Jennifer Gómez Menjívar Sue P. Haglund Brook Danielle Lillehaugen Paul Joseph López Oro Rita M. Palacios Gabriela Spears-Rico Paul Worley


Indigenous Interfaces Related Books

Indigenous Interfaces
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Jennifer Gómez Menjívar
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-07 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Cultural preservation, linguistic revitalization, intellectual heritage, and environmental sustainability became central to Indigenous movements in Mexico and C
The Design of Future Educational Interfaces
Language: en
Pages: 441
Authors: Sharon Oviatt
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-21 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Design of Future Educational Interfaces provides a new multidisciplinary synthesis of educational interface research. It explains how computer interfaces ca
A Tale of Three Villages
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Liam Frink
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-12 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

People are often able to identify change agents. They can estimate possible economic and social transitions, and they are often in an economic or social positio
Central American Literatures as World Literature
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Sophie Esch
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-10-05 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Challenging the notion that Central American literature is a marginal space within Latin American literary and world literary production, this collection positi
Black in Print
Language: en
Pages: 351
Authors: Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-05-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Black in Print examines the role of narrative, from traditional writing to new media, in conversations about race and belonging in the isthmus. It argues that t