Dr. Cindy Tekobbe Releases New Monograph: Indigenous Voices in Digital Spaces
Dr. Cindy Tekobbe, Assistant Professor of Critical Feminist Science and Technology in Gender and Women’s Studies and Communication at UIC has launched her new monograph, Indigenous Voices in Digital Spaces, which applies Indigenous frameworks and epistemologies to online cultural movements through four case studies, including hashtags, memes, cryptocurrency, and digital artistry, and develops decolonizing practices for digital rhetoric, online identity work, and digital literacy practices.
Tekobbe’s work emphasizes Indigenous storytelling and complex meaning-making, resisting settler-colonial narratives that oversimplify Indigenous identities. By analyzing how Native Americans utilize digital platforms for activism, the book constructs a richer understanding of Indigenous identities as dynamic and culture-making.
This book is useful to instructors in Indigenous studies, internet studies, digital literacies, cultural studies and communications, as well as Indigenous and internet studies researchers.
Learn more about this transformative work here.