This paper explores how Facebook functions as a digital homeland for Asian diasporic communities in Australia, offering a vital space for cultural preservation, identity formation, and community cohesion. Through detailed analysis and real-world examples, such as the Facebook group Subtle Asian Traits, the essay illustrates how the platform fosters transnational connections, supports religious and cultural…

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Abstract For Indigenous communities in Australia, social media has become a double-edged platform: a space for visibility, resistance, and cultural reclamation, but also a site of surveillance, misrepresentation, and trauma. This paper explores how Indigenous Australians use platforms like TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram to assert identity, resist colonial narratives, and heal through storytelling. While digital…

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Introduction As Baker & Lowman (2024) suggest, we are on the precipice of a great and unprecedented shift for indigenous nations and people. A shift driven by resurgence movements that assert indigenous nationhood and autonomy, challenge settler colonial structures, and embrace land-based practices to create decolonised futures (Baker & Lowman, 2024). In this discussion, I…

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Abstract: This paper explores the role social media plays with preserving and advocating Indigenous Australians cultural heritage. Since the expansion of social media, we can identify how social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, have given Indigenous Australians a platform and opportunity to showcase their cultures, storytelling, artwork, beliefs and values, languages and traditions…

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