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Talk, Text and Technology is an ethnographic exploration of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. This unique work traces the historical transformation of one Indigenous group across four generations. The manner in which each generation adopts, adapts and incorporates new innovations and technologies into social practice and cultural processes is illuminated - from first mission contact and the introduction of literacy in the 1930s to youth media practices today. This book examines social, cultural and linguistic practices and addresses the implications for language and literacy socialisation.

Language and languages. --- Literacy --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Social aspects --- Technological innovations --- History --- Language and languages --- Australian literacy practices. --- Indigenous Australia. --- Indigenous literacy. --- language and literacy socialisation . --- literacy and media. --- literacy and social practice. --- literacy education.