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Collaborative Research Results Dissemination: Applying Postcolonial Theory to Indigenous Community Contexts

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Community engagement in research has become increasingly important; it is essential for research conducted with Indigenous communities. In some cases, community members are receptively engaged in research from beginning to end, but this is inconsistent. Community collaboration during the results dissemination process is an element of engagement that is consistently overlooked or otherwise ineffectively executed. The concept of decolonizing research and the postcolonial theoretical foundations of decolonization are explored in this paper. Decolonizing research involves conducting research with Indigenous communities that places Indigenous voices and epistemologies at the center of the research process. This paper considers a decolonization framework to examine Native American community collaboration in the research results dissemination process including recommendations for applying postcolonial theory in the design of technologies to facilitate collaborative research results dissemination.

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  • 19 March 2021

    The chapter was inadvertently published with an incorrect wording of the main title: “Collaborative Research Results Dissemination: Applying Postcolonial Theory to Indigenous Community Collaboration in Research Results Dissemination” whereas it should read: “Collaborative Research Results Dissemination: Applying Postcolonial Theory to Indigenous Community Contexts”.

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Dirks, L.G. (2021). Collaborative Research Results Dissemination: Applying Postcolonial Theory to Indigenous Community Contexts. In: Toeppe, K., Yan, H., Chu, S.K.W. (eds) Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue. iConference 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12646. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71305-8_33

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