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Article: Cultural centrality and information and communication technology among Canadian youth.(Report)
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- Canadian Journal of Sociology
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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Abstract. This paper examines the positions of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis (FNIM) peoples, and visible minorities as distances from the cultural "centre" of White European culture. It then assesses the relation of information and communication technology (ICT) to these locations among Canadian youth using three data sets: the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey, the 2000 Youth in Transition Survey (older cohort) and its 2002 follow-up, and a 2004-2005 survey collected by the authors. Findings indicate that the idea of cultural centrality is useful in locating FNIM groups and visible minorities vis-a-vis the cultural centre and each other and highlighting the stratified ...