This project aims to investigate how media technologies can facilitate cross-cultural engagement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.

  • Project dates: 2019–2023

There is a need to break down the barriers that limit cross-cultural engagement with heritage issues.

Mobile media environments provide ways to build this engagement through place-based incentives.

The project expects to develop a new model for practice-based research, two mobile apps, two digital archives and a toolkit to guide people on driving, cycling and walking tours to Indigenous places of significance.

This will offer valuable avenues to share knowledge on the importance of those sites, build cultural awareness and position Indigenous knowledges at the heart of place-based engagements.

Key People

Lead researchers

Talking Country: Sharing Indigenous stories of place through mobile media

Associate Professor Olivia Guntarik

RMIT

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Talking Country: Sharing Indigenous stories of place through mobile media

Professor Lorelle Burton

University of Southern Queensland

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Talking Country: Sharing Indigenous stories of place through mobile media

Professor Mark McMillan

RMIT

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Professor Libby Porter

Professor Libby Porter

Convener of Critical Urban Governance Program

Talking Country: Sharing Indigenous stories of place through mobile media

Associate Professor Cathy Greenfield

RMIT

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Talking Country: Sharing Indigenous stories of place through mobile media

Mr Peter West

RMIT

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