Welcome to the
official hompepage of Project LINC!
Project LINC
aims to learn about and to learn from the articulations of indigenous
presence online, as gleaned from the perspective of indigenous persons
who are themselves users of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
Specifically,
we approach indigenous websites as an interactive medium through which
to textually "interview" (via online questionnaires) authors
of personal and/or collective indigenous websites. Such (auto)biographical
productions are considered to constitute one dimension
contributing to the formulation and framing of what we might call
the "virtual face of indigeneity". We hope to better perceive
this virtual face on its own terms by means of a web-based survey
that invites the participation of indigenous persons and groups whose
cyber-activities, in their respective ways, contribute to the re-presentations
and brokerage of indigeneity online.
GO TO THE LINC ONLINE SURVEY!
Please participate only if you are actively involved in an indigenous website!
Project LINC
is conducted by Kyra Landzelius and Philipp Budka:
Kyra Landzelius
is an anthropologist whose work among indigenous peoples has mainly
focused on ways to improve the health of women and children. She has
also studied the role of internet in indigenous rights campaigns,
and has edited a collection of essays that examine the use of information
and communication technologies by indigenous and diasporic peoples
(Routledge citation, and IWGIA articles). Landzelius received her
Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania (in 1993),
and is currently a researcher and lecturer at Gothenburg University
in Sweden.
She can be reached
at:
kyra.landzelius@sts.gu.se
Department of Science and Technology Studies
Gothenburg University
405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
Philipp Budka
is currently working as scientific officer and lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
at the University of Vienna, Austria. In 2004, Budka has started his dissertation studies in Social and
Cultural Anthropology at the Viennese Department.
Within his PhD project he is working with Canadian indigenous organisations and
networks to learn about their uses of internet media technologies, both from an
on- and off-line perspective. Budka studied Social and Cultural Anthropology and Communications
at the Universities of Vienna, Austria and Utrecht, Netherlands.
He can be reached
at:
ph.budka@philbu.net
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Vienna
1010 Vienna, Austria
(If you would
like to get more information about Project LINC and/or Kyra
Landzelius and Philipp Budka, don't hesitate to contact us at: linc@phibu.net)
Project LINC has been supported by a couple of students of the Department of
Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, notably Isabell Bickel who did some of the research and data organization.
Project LINC is generously funded by the
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.