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American Indians in Children’s Literature: An Indigenous Scholar’s Use of Social Media. University of Illinois Community Informatics Center for Children’s Books ___ Wednesday, April 13, 4:00 PM Room 46, Library and Information Science. “American Indians are not people of color…”. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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American Indians in Children’s Literature: An
Indigenous Scholar’s Use of Social Media
University of Illinois Community Informatics
Center for Children’s Books___
Wednesday, April 13, 4:00 PMRoom 46, Library and Information Science
Listservs
ECENET – Harvard Education Letter, 1996
Birthday Bear (April 1997) – Studies in American Indian Literatures, 2000
Anne Rinaldi’s My Heart is on the Ground, 1999/2011
2003—a website?
A blog!
AICL stats
Launch: May, 2006
802 posts
Almost 900,000 page views (Sitemeter)
Over 254,000 page views since May, 2010 (Blogger)
Two dissertations
AICL Audience
American Indian/First Nations links
Profs in Children’s Literature – Education/LIS/English
Librarians, parents
Writers in Children’s Literature: Phillip Pullman, Sharon Creech
Native writers: Simon Ortiz, Joseph Bruchac, Cynthia Leitich Smith
What is on AICL?
Recommended Books, Sites, Articles
Traditional Stories• “based on”• interpretations• shelving
Classics, Bestsellers, Holidays• Little House on the Prairie• Twilight• Touching Spirit Bear• Thanksgiving
“Open Letter” posts
Social Media Intersections:AICL and Twitter
April 18, 2010: “What Neil Gaiman said”
Kynn on LiveJournal: “Neil Gaiman Racist Fail”
Gaiman tweets
An internet pile on
Skype
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