Australian Rock Art - Digital Preservation of the Narrative Context?

Abstract

The thesis investigates how living cultures with a history of primary orality can create safe virtual environments for indigenous communities, in which they can use internet platforms as an extension of their long-established ways of communication. To understand how indigenous communities store information, the thesis analyses how it is managed and remember through mnemonic techniques in complex knowledge system and how the information in disseminated within a strict knowledge hierarchy. The discussion will explore how new technologies can be used as an extension to the already established informational pathways within their knowledge systems and even can support cultural revitalisation.