27 min
Killswitch Disconnect
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- Social Sciences
When you live in a place with mobile phone reception you can switch off your device, but the network stays on. But what if you wanted the whole thing switched off? In some remote Australian communities, it can be.
Disconnect is a podcast about the internet in remote Australian Aboriginal communities. Produced by RMIT University, led by Ellie Rennie, Indigo Holcombe-James and Tyson Yunkaporta, with producer James Milsom, Disconnect was funded by Telstra as an action within their Reconciliation Action Plan 2018-2021 (hyperlinks below).
RMIT University: https://digital-ethnography.com/
Telstra's Reconciliation Action Plan: https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/about-us/community-environment/pdf/tel024_telstra-reconciliation-action-plan-2018-2021.pdf
In this episode you heard from:
Dennis Charles
Kumanjayi Katakarinja
Jenny McFarland, CAYLUS
Daniel Sacchero, Easyweb Digital
Jonathan Daw, First Nations Media Australia
Music prior to credits: Native Tongue performed by Mojo Juju. Licensed courtesy Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The inDigiMOB program worked with us on this episode. inDigiMOB is a partnership between First Nations Media Australia and Telstra.
First Nations Media Australia (formerly known as Indigenous Remote Communications Association or IRCA) is the national peak body for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media industry.
Soft sculpture of tin can telephone by Rhonda Sharpe, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists.
Image design by Pam Koger.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
When you live in a place with mobile phone reception you can switch off your device, but the network stays on. But what if you wanted the whole thing switched off? In some remote Australian communities, it can be.
Disconnect is a podcast about the internet in remote Australian Aboriginal communities. Produced by RMIT University, led by Ellie Rennie, Indigo Holcombe-James and Tyson Yunkaporta, with producer James Milsom, Disconnect was funded by Telstra as an action within their Reconciliation Action Plan 2018-2021 (hyperlinks below).
RMIT University: https://digital-ethnography.com/
Telstra's Reconciliation Action Plan: https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/about-us/community-environment/pdf/tel024_telstra-reconciliation-action-plan-2018-2021.pdf
In this episode you heard from:
Dennis Charles
Kumanjayi Katakarinja
Jenny McFarland, CAYLUS
Daniel Sacchero, Easyweb Digital
Jonathan Daw, First Nations Media Australia
Music prior to credits: Native Tongue performed by Mojo Juju. Licensed courtesy Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The inDigiMOB program worked with us on this episode. inDigiMOB is a partnership between First Nations Media Australia and Telstra.
First Nations Media Australia (formerly known as Indigenous Remote Communications Association or IRCA) is the national peak body for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media industry.
Soft sculpture of tin can telephone by Rhonda Sharpe, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists.
Image design by Pam Koger.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
27 min