Geographical Regions of Interest
- Canada
Indigenous communities in what is now referred to as Canada. - Ghana
Accra, Ghana (Media in Ghana Program in Summer 2015) Helped oversee 20 undergraduate students and to assist in producing a non-profit campaign in public maternal health. Research in Ghana: Chávez, C., & Cordes, A. (2017). Selling subversion: An African City and the promise of online television. Television and New Media, 19(3), 191-207. DOI:10.1177/1527476417712458. http://ghana.uoregon.edu/author/acordes. - India
- United States of America
Indigenous Nations in what is now referred to as the US.
Research Keywords
- Representation
- Native American Studies
- Indigenous Studies
- Emergent Technologies (Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence)
- Digital Media
- Decolonial Participatory Action Research
- Critical and Cultural Studies
Presentations
- Indigenous Communication Methods. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/19/2021.
- Cordes, A., & Chávez, C. (2021). Decolonizing Practices in the Arctic: Regeneration of Indigenous Languages Within the Commercial Music System, International Communication Association, Virtual. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/2021.
- Decolonial Constellatory Autoethnographic Mode of Indigenous Archaeology (DCAM).
Presentation,
Presented, 04/27/2021.
https://communication.utah.edu/eventscalendar.php?... - Indigenous Cryptocurrency: Finance, Capital, and the Digital Ghosts of Empire.
Presentation,
Presented, 04/14/2021.
https://digitalmatters.utah.edu/media/ - Cordes, A. Challenging Settler Colonial Stories with Digital Data, Archaeology, and Communication. UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 03/19/2021.
https://en.uit.no/forskning/forskningsgrupper/sub?... - Cordes, A. (2021) Revisiting Stories and Voices of the Rogue River War. Oregon State University Lecture Series.
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 02/12/2021.
https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/anthropology_... - Cordes, A. Resistance Artificial Intelligence at Neural Information Processing System (NeurIPS).
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 12/11/2020.
https://videos.neurips.cc/category/34/search/Indig... - Cordes, A. Mascot Controversy: Native American Representation in Sports. Florida Atlantic University.
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 11/17/2020.
https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/mascots.php - Brown Bag on Indigenous Futurisms, University of Utah, Department of Communication. Other, Presented, 03/03/2020.
- Cordes, A. (2020). Theories of Postcolonialism, Decolonization, and Race, presented at Dissoi Logoi, Rhetorical Society of America. Salt Lake City, UT. Presentation, Presented, 02/26/2020.
- Cordes, A. (2019). Unsettling Settler Origin Stories: Educational Refusal and Communication of Indigenous Survivance, National Communication Association, Baltimore, Maryland, November 14-17. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/14/2019.
- Cordes, A. (2019). From the Gold Rush to the Code Rush, presented at Native Series, University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon. Presentation, Presented, 05/03/2019.
- Cordes, A. (2019). #Donttrendonme: Millennial Coachella Appropriation on Instagram, The International Academic Forum, Tokyo, Japan, March 29-31, 2019. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/30/2019.
Publications
- Cordes, Ashley (2021). Storying on the Coquille River: A digital humanities approach to human and non-human communication and prevention of the fall Chinook salmon extinction. [Website/Blog] URL https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3678bc6932c74332b0d57adf3434aa55.
Accepted, 11/11/2021.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3678bc6932c74... - Cordes, Ashley (2021). Indigenous music and the question of authenticity. In Media Res.
Accepted, 09/22/2021.
http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/indigenous-mus... - Cordes, Ashley (2021). Revisiting stories and voices of the Rogue River War (1853-1856): A digital constellatory autoethnographic mode of Indigenous archaeology. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. Vol. 21(1), 56-69.
Published, 07/2021.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15327... - Cordes, Ashley (2021). Indigenous cryptocurrency: Finance, capital, and the digital ghosts of empire. [Website/Blog] URL https://digitalmatters.utah.edu/cordes-2021-spr-fac-blogpost/.
Published, 04/12/2021.
https://digitalmatters.utah.edu/cordes-2021-spr-fa... - Kvidal-Røvik, Trine & Cordes, Ashley (2020). Into the unknown [Amas Mu Vuordá]? Listening to Indigenous voices on the meanings of Disney’s Frozen 2 [Jikŋon 2]. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. Vol. 15(1), 17-35.
Published, 12/02/2020.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17513... - Cordes, Ashley & Sabzalian, Leilani (2020). The urgent need for anticolonial media literacy. International Journal of Multicultural Education. Vol. 21(2), 182-201.
Published, 09/01/2020.
https://ijme-journal.org/index.php/ijme/article/vi... - Kronk Warner, E & Comer, A., Cordes, A. Dell, A., Menlove, B., Ned, D., Projansky, S., Sepulveda, C., Smoak, G., Villarreal, M. (2020). University of Utah land acknowledgement statement . University of Utah.
Published, 09/2020.
https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/indigenous-la... - Cordes, Ashley (2020). Meeting place: Bringing Native feminisms to bear on borders of cyberspace. Feminist Media Studies.
Published, 01/30/2020.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1720347 - Cordes, Ashley (2020). Envisioning the artificial: Technology, time, and Indigenizing the future of AI. (pp. 137-141). Vol. 1(1). The Initiative for Indigenous Futures and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
Published, 01/30/2020.
https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/986506/ - Lewis, Jason, Abdilla, Angie, Arista, Noelani, Baker Kaipulaumakaniolono, Benesiinaabandan, Scott, Brown, Michelle & Cordes, Ashley, et. al (2020). Introduction and Guidelines for Indigenous-Centered AI Design V.I. (pp. 3-26). Vol. 1(1). Initiative for Indigenous Futures and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
Published, 01/30/2020.
https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/986506/7/Ind... - Cordes, Ashley (2020). Gifts of dentalium and fire: Entwining trust and care with AI. (pp. 58-68). Vol. 1(1). The Initiative for Indigenous Futures and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
Published, 01/30/2020.
https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/986506/ - Cordes, Ashley (2019). From the Gold Rush to the cryptocurrency code rush?: Communication of alternative currency for Native American communities (1853-2014) . (pp. 304). Dissertation Proquest.
Published, 09/18/2019.
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794... - Cordes, Ashley & Merskin, Debra (2019). #DontTrendOnMe: Addressing appropriation of Native American-ness in millennial social media. (pp. 177-197). Lexington. Published, 08/15/2019.
- Cordes, Ashley (2019). ‘Aa-bv-lus ‘aa-t’e’s. Shu’ ‘al-srvn, shu’ ‘aa-ghvl-nvsh. Luminaire Press. Published, 07/08/2019.
- Cordes, Ashley (2019). Tr’e-ghes-tr’i’, tr’aa-xe tr’e-svt-te. Tr’aa- xe lhaa-ni tr’vt-t’i. Luminaire Press. Published, 07/08/2019.