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Subject: 32.1396, Calls: Disc Analys, Ling & Lit, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Online

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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:18:20
From: Anna Mongibello [amongibello at unior.it]
Subject: Indigenous Resistance in the Digital Age: the Politics of Language, Media and Culture

Full Title: Indigenous Resistance in the Digital Age: the Politics of Language, Media and Culture 
Short Title: InRes2021 

Date: 27-Oct-2021 - 30-Oct-2021
Location: University of Naples (Zoom), Italy 
Contact Person: Anna Mongibello
Meeting Email: inres2021 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.indigenousresistanceconference.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2021 

Meeting Description:

The International Conference “Indigenous Resistance in the Digital Age: the
Politics of Language, Media and Culture” will be held online on Zoom on 27-30
October 2021. The Conference aims at broadening the current critical debate on
creative Indigenous resistance in digital environments so as to include a
combination of theoretical approaches and methodologies that range from
Indigenous Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics,
Multimodal Analysis, Media Studies, among others, that may offer new
perspectives and insights.

Over the last decades, the advent of digital and social media has deeply
affected and radically transformed the interplay between politics,
communication and new technologies. This has had a major impact on how
engagement and participation take place in the digital age, as well as on how
we tell stories and present ourselves through online platforms and within
other networked virtual places (De Fina and Georgakopoulou 2020).

The new cyber territories that we inhabit daily involve different
configurations of digital communication and social practices, which change
significantly on the basis of cultural contexts of interaction, interaction
spaces, and semiotic resources. This is even more true when it comes to
Indigenous communities across the globe, whose widening use of new media has
become “a creative and empowering tool to combat language death, raise
political awareness, and ingeniously create Indigenous networks across various
geographies” (Menjívar and Chacón 2019: 11). 

As Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew, founder of Drumbeats to Drumbytes, highlighted,
“the digital realm provides Indigenous communities with an autonomous platform
to assert an online presence in the face of colonial catastrophe” (2005). For
instance, Indigenous digital activism in response to social and political
injustices has reclaimed counter-discursive spaces of resistance in the
cybersphere, entering the public arena with digital movements such as
#idlenomore (Mongibello 2018), #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA and #IndigenousDads (Carlson
2019) as well as Facebook posts, Instagram stories, Twitter hashtags, YouTube
videos, blogs etc. Indigenous digital media innovators are using Web 2.0
technologies in highly creative digital projects such as CyberPowWow and
Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace. 

Such movements, projects and forms of individual digital activism resist
power, domination and control by interrogating contemporary colonizing systems
and subverting the mainstream narrative of the ‘unmodern Indian’ along with
other stereotypes (LaRocque 2010, 2016). New dynamic forms of Indigenous
self-determination and network sovereignty (Duarte 2017) through social media,
in particular, allow Indigenous people to “agitate, demand political
recognition for Indigenous causes, and proffer contesting and challenging
views that dismantle colonial preoccupations with Indigenous political unity”
(Carlson and Frazer 2016). Indigenous communities are therefore carving out a
space for themselves as full participants in the shaping of the cybersphere
(Lewis 2016). These digital advancements make a better understanding of the
dynamics of digital communication and Indigenous resistance more essential
than ever.

Call for Papers: 

The conference welcomes proposals that investigate linguistic, cultural and
social aspects of Indigenous digital activisms at macro and/or micro levels,
and the languages of resistance across genres, channels and
cyber-environments, drawing from different academic disciplines as well as
different critical approaches. The topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

 - Facebook, Twitter and other social networks as new frontiers for Indigenous
activists
 - Corpora, annotation schemes and other resources and methods for analyzing
Indigenous resistance
 - Linguistic, multimodal, critical analysis of dissent and online struggles
 - Metaphors, tropes, narratives and other devices used in Indigenous digital
activism
on social media
 - Language, memory and Indigeneity in virtual worlds
 - Sovereignty, Indigenous lands and the cyberspace 
 - Online/offline Indigenous self-representations and their multiple
expressions
 - Responses to online anti-Indigenous racism
 - Indigenous (self- and other) representations in video-games
 - Contemporary online Indigeneity and global connectivity
 - Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence and digital worlds
 - Technology and decolonization
 - Emancipatory role of digital technology for Indigenous people
 - Data, information, connectivity, digital technologies and control
 - Educational technology (e.g., virtual labs, e-learning, mobile apps) for
Indigenous languages revitalization
 - Indigenous online voices and political participation
 - Ancestral languages and cultural heritage in online environments
 - The inclusion of Indigenous viewpoints in developing new technologies
 - Indigenous Futurism
 - Digital art as resistance
 - Innovative forms of digital oratory and storytelling

Submission Guidelines: 
We invite proposals on any topic relevant to the conference theme. Submissions
are limited to one abstract per person. Each talk selected for presentation
will be allotted 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstracts
have to be written in English and should not exceed 350 words excluding
references. Proposals should include: title of the talk, name of author and
affiliation, email address, a short bio-bibliographical sketch (max 100 words)
and up to five keywords.

Submissions must be made through Easy Chair by June 30, 2021 via the following
link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=inres-2021

Conference Convenor: Anna Mongibello (University of Naples ''L'Orientale'')

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Bronwyn Carlson, Head of the Department of
Indigenous Studies (Macquarie University, Australia); Alexandra
Georgakopoulou, Professor of Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics (King’s
College, UK); Emma La Rocque, Professor of Indigenous Studies, Cree/Métis
activist and poet (University of Manitoba, Canada) 

For more info, please check out our website:
https://www.indigenousresistanceconference.com/ or send an email to
inres2021 at gmail.com

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