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What Can We Say about 112,000 Taps on a Ndjebbana Touch Screen?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Glenn Auld
Glenn Auld*
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School of ITMS, University of Ballarat
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Abstract

This paper reports on the use of touch screens to display simple talking books in a minority Indigenous Australian language. Three touch screens are located in an informal context in a remote Indigenous Australian community. The popularity of the computers can be explained by the form of the touch screen and by the intertextual and hybrid nature of the talking books. The results suggest the Kunibídji choose to transform their own culture by including new digital technologies which represent their social practice.

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Section A: Teaching and Learning
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , 2002 , pp. 1 - 7
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

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