{"id":477,"date":"2012-07-26T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2022-09-04T15:31:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T13:31:43","slug":"free-chapter-we-were-on-the-outside-looking-in-myknet-org-a-first-nations-online-social-environment-in-northern-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/free-chapter-we-were-on-the-outside-looking-in-myknet-org-a-first-nations-online-social-environment-in-northern-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: &#8220;We were on the outside looking in&#8221;: MyKnet.org &#8211; A First Nations Online Social Environment in Northern Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bell, B., Budka, P., Fiser, A. 2012. &#8220;We were on the outside looking in&#8221;: MyKnet.org &#8211; A First Nations online social environment in northern Ontario. In A. Clement, M. Gurstein, G. Longford, M. Moll &amp; L. R. Shade (Eds.), <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aupress.ca\/index.php\/books\/120193\"><em>Connecting Canadians: Investigations in Community Informatics<\/em><\/a><strong> (pp. 237-254). Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2000, one of Canada\u2019s leading Aboriginal community networks, the Kuh-ke-nah Network, or K-Net, was on the verge of expanding into broadband services. (For more on K-Net, see chapter 14.) K-Net\u2019s management organization, Keewaytinook Okimakanak Tribal Council, had acquired funding and resources to become one of Industry Canada\u2019s Smart Communities demonstration projects. Among the innovative services that K-Net introduced at the time was MyKnet.org, a system of personal home pages intended for remote First Nations users in a region of Northern Ontario where numerous communities have lived without adequate residential telecom service well into the millennium (Fiser, Clement, and Walmark 2006; Ram\u00edrez et al. 2003). Shortly thereafter, and through K-Net\u2019s community-based Internet infrastructure, this free-of-charge, free-of-advertising, locally supported, online social environment grew from its core constituency of remote First Nations communities to host over 30,000 registered user accounts (of which approximately 20,000 represent active home pages). &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>free chapter download:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aupress.ca\/index.php\/books\/120193\">http:\/\/www.aupress.ca\/index.php\/books\/120193<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bell, B., Budka, P., Fiser, A. 2012. &#8220;We were on the outside looking in&#8221;: MyKnet.org &#8211; A First Nations online social environment in northern Ontario. In A. Clement, M. Gurstein, G. Longford, M. Moll &amp; L. R. Shade (Eds.), Connecting Canadians: Investigations in Community Informatics (pp. 237-254). Edmonton: Athabasca University Press. &#8220;In 2000, one of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/free-chapter-we-were-on-the-outside-looking-in-myknet-org-a-first-nations-online-social-environment-in-northern-ontario\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Article: &#8220;We were on the outside looking in&#8221;: MyKnet.org &#8211; A First Nations Online Social Environment in Northern Ontario<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,3,34,54,99,103,4,7,9,29,26,106],"tags":[153,169,186,154,155,157,126,36,21],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-canada","category-community-informatics","category-cyberanthropology","category-digital-anthropology","category-ethnography","category-first-nations","category-internet","category-media-anthropology","category-anthropology","category-technology","category-www-icts","tag-canada","tag-community-informatics","tag-digital-anthropology","tag-first-nations","tag-icts","tag-internet","tag-ko-knet","tag-myknet","tag-www"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}