Indigenous X

Jeffrey Ansloos, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Studies in Health. His research examines social and political dimensions of Indigenous health, cultural production, and digital media, including Native Twitter. He is a member of Fisher River Cree Nation and lives in Toronto. Ashley Caranto Morford (she/her) is a diasporic Filipina-British settler scholar and educator whose interdisciplinary work is in relationship with Filipinx/a/o studies, Indigenous studies, critical race studies, anti-colonial methods and praxis, literary studies, and digital humanities. Ashley is an Assistant Professor of Multiethnic American Literatures at Weber State University. David Gaertner is a settler scholar and an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. His research sits at the intersection of Indigenous studies, digital media, and critical AI studies, with a focus on extractivism, infrastructure, and colonial afterlives of technology. He teaches courses on community-engaged research, media theory, and digital storytelling.

Introduction: Jeffrey Ansloos, Ashley Caranto-Morford, David Gaertner Part I: Digital Smoke Signals: Movements within Indigenous X Chapter 1: Social Media Potentialities and Legacy Media Framing: A Close Analysis on #NoDAPL - Shanna Peltier Chapter 2: Public Square and Echo Chamber: Ten Years on Twitter - Dorothy Kim, Chapter 3: How the Idle No More Movement Helped to Redefine Organizing - Nickita Longman Chapter 4: Blacking Out Twitter: "Hashing Out" The Hashtag - Bronwyn Carlson Chapter 5: Sharing Oshkimadizijik Inewin (Youth Voices) through Social Media - Joey-Lynn Wabie, Michelle Kennedy, Candy Blair, Julia Coleman, Jordyn Hendricks, Michael Whiteloon, and Akin Taiwo Part II: Cyber Ceremony: Language, Community, Culture, and Meaning with Indigenous X Chapter 6: Doing Indigenous Language Revitalization and Reclamation through Twitter - G?vu?i?/Q?vu?q?vsm?i? - Rory Housty, Jessica Louise Verl McLay, and Mark Turin Chapter 7: Indigenous X is not Technonullius: Land-based relations in Digital Territory - Ashley Caranto Morford and Jeffrey Ansloos Chapter 8: Data Mining in Indigenous Virtual Communities: The Case for Indigenous Internet Research Protocols - Jordyn Hrenyk Chapter 9: Spiral Galaxies": On the possibility of care and community on Twitter - Daniel Heath Justice and David Gaertner Part III: Virtual Powwow Protocols: Ethics and Methods with Indigenous X Chapter 10: Research Ethics for InDigiScapes: Indigenous Voices on Twitter during the 2019 Canadian Federal Election - Kelsey Leonard, Chelsea Gabel, and Marrissa Mathews Chapter 11: Technification and Surveillance: Concessions Inherent in a Digital Presence - Courteney Morin Chapter 12: Black Indigenous #NativeTwitter Roundtable - Carrington Christmas and Joy Henderson Chapter 13: Twitter Thread: Chelsea Vowel, "Land Back: Twitter Thread" Chapter 14: Literary Works of Indigenous Life: On Reading Native Twitteratures - Jeffrey Ansloos and Ashley Caranto Morford Chapter 15: Anti-Black Racism in Our Community: A Twitter Thread - Joy Henderson