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Cyber-Indigeneity: Urban Indigenous Identity on Facebook

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Bronwyn Lumby*
Affiliation:
Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
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Abstract

This paper addresses understandings and theorising of identity in cyberspace. In particular, it focuses on the construction, maintenance and performance of urban Indigenous identities on the contemporary internet social space, Facebook.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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