Indigenous Media

Bombs, threats don't stop the journalists of Kanaky

by David Robie

Robie, David (1987). Bombs, threats don't stop the journalists of Kanaky. Islands Business, November edition.

Bombs, sabotage, death threats and assaults are all in a day's work for the staff of the fledgling radio stations and... more Bombs, sabotage, death threats and assaults are all in a day's work for the staff of the fledgling radio stations and newspaper campaigning for independence in New Caledonia. The three FM stations, operating in the capital, Noumea, the north-eastern town of Hiénghène, and the Loyalty Islands, and the newspaper Bwenando face formidible obstacles. While they see themselves as the “free” voice of Kanaky, they are portrayed by the French-controlled media as “revolutionary” and trying to subvert the French Republic. New Caledonia does not enjoy the freedom of press which is taken for granted in metropolitan France or in neighbouring South Pacific nations such as Australia, New Zealand and even pre-coup Fiji. Although there are few laws that curb the media, the nature of ownership means the mainstream media is heavily biased against the Kanak population which supports independence.

Communicating in Designing an Oral Repository for Rural African Villages

by Nicola J Bidwell

Reitmaier, T, Bidwell, NJ., Siya, M., Marsden, G., Tucker, B., Kotze, P. (2012) IST-Africa: Regional Impact of Information Society Technologies in Africa. Dar es Salem, Tanzania, May 2012. ", paper reference number 153, included in the IST-Africa 2012 Conference Proceedings

Abstract: We describe designing an asynchronous, oral repository and sharing system that we intend to suit the needs... more Abstract: We describe designing an asynchronous, oral repository and sharing system that we intend to suit the needs and practices of rural residents in South Africa. We aim to enable users without access to personal computers to record, store, and share information within their Xhosa community using cellphones and a tablet PC combined with their existing face-to-face oral practices. Our approach recognises that systems are more likely to be effective if the design concept and process build on existing local communication practices as well as addressing local constraints, e.g. cost. Thus, we show how the objectives for the system emerged from prolonged research locally and how we communicated insights, situated in the community, into the process of design and development in a city-based lab. We discuss how we integrated understandings about communication between situated- and localresearchers
and designers and developers and note the importance of recognising and centralising subtle differences in our perception of acts of oral communication. We go on to show how the materiality of the software, the tablet form factor, and touch
interaction style played into our collaborative effort in conceiving the design.

Building Indigenous Agency Through Web-Based Exhibition: Dane-Wajich – Dane-zaa Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the Land

by Amber Ridington

Co-authored with Kate Hennessy. Published in In J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds.) Museums and the Web 2008: Proceedings (CD-ROM), Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. Published March 31, 2008. Online at: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/ridington/ridington.html

In the fall of 2007 the Doig River First Nation, an Aboriginal group from northeastern British Columbia, launched its... more In the fall of 2007 the Doig River First Nation, an Aboriginal group from northeastern British Columbia, launched its Virtual Museum of Canada-funded Web exhibit Dane-Wajich – Dane-zaa Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the Land. This exhibit was produced by the First Nation in collaboration with ethnographers, linguists, and multimedia professionals. It integrates subtitled Dane-zaa and English video narratives, interpretive e-text, photographs of the production process, recordings of songs, and contemporary and archival images of traditional lands in order to showcase Dane-zaa culture and address present concerns faced by the community as they negotiate legacies of colonialism. The exhibit’s community-directed production process has contributed to the revitalization of Dane-zaa culture and language as it brought elders and youth together to document stories, songs, and their relationship to the land. The project has also provided the First Nation with control over their representation, and has become a valuable learning resource for local and global audiences. Presented by the exhibit co-curators and project coordinators, the demonstration and paper will showcase the exhibition and discuss questions, raised in the exhibit production process, which relate to the politics of cultural representation in the context of museums and the Web: How can curators and communities balance the benefits of sharing Indigenous culture with protecting Indigenous culture? Can consensus be reached over what is appropriate to show a worldwide audience versus a local audience? How is local intellectual property rights discourse constituted? And how do these emerging rights contribute to the development of protocols for meaningful consultation with Aboriginal communities?

Keywords: Dane-zaa, oral traditions, participatory production, collaboration, representation.

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Indigenous peoples and the cultural construction of information and communication technology (ICT) in Latin America

by Juan Francisco Salazar

Self-determination in practice: the critical making of indigenous media

by Juan Francisco Salazar

Written oral history: Dimensions of identity of Chukotka’s indigenous people in the works of Rytkheu

by Ivan Sablin

published in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, vol. 8, no. 1, 2012, pp. 27–41.

Through the examination of two autobiographic works of Chukchi writer, Rytkheu, this study demonstrates the research... more Through the examination of two autobiographic works of Chukchi writer, Rytkheu, this study demonstrates the research potential of indigenous literatures, offering a new perspective on the past and present of indigenous peoples. The study seeks to provide new interpretations of identity in Chukotka, the northeastern extremity of Asia, of the 1930s and 1940s and to contribute to the identity debate in indigenous studies. In the article identity is understood as a multidimensional whole, with the discussed dimensions being based on ethnicity, nationality, occupation and place of residence. The article pre-eminently addresses the identity of the coastal sea-mammal hunters of Chukotka.

Indigenous Knowledges in Latin America and Australia: Locating Epistemologies, Difference and Dissent | December 8-10, 2011

by Victoria Grieves

This two day symposium and one day film festival will bring together Indigenous educators and intellectuals from Latin... more This two day symposium and one day film festival will bring together Indigenous educators and intellectuals from Latin America to Sydney to meet with interested Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators, scholars and activists, as well as non-Indigenous practitioners and allies, to discuss different models and approaches of Indigenous KnowledgeS and Education in the tertiary sector and beyond.

This project aims at helping educators and researchers in the Higher Education sector of Australia and Latin America to identify opportunities for integrating in their research and teaching and learning relevant aspects of Indigenous Knowledges in the areas of culture, education and sustainability.

Apart from the symposium itself, academic publications, public lectures by distinguished visitors and the creation of a website, the project will stimulate debate on Indigenous Knowledge and film production in Latin America and Australia by hosting a documentary screening on the topic. The selection of documentaries will be done in collaboration with the Sydney Latin American Film Festival, and this event will be targeted to the student population and the wider community.

La explotación comercial y el abuso hacia la música originaria en base a los derechos de autor y los derechos públicos impuestos por un modelo consumista

by Jorge Ayala

Print Culture and the Collective Maori Consciousness

by Lachy Paterson

Journal of New Zealand Literature, 18:2 (2010), pp. 105-129.

Although literacy and print were essential tools of the New Zealand colonial project ultimately designed to... more Although literacy and print were essential tools of the New Zealand colonial project ultimately designed to ‘amalgamate’ Māori into the modern Pākehā-dominated world, ironically they also helped in the evolution of a collective Māori consciousness. This collective sense of being manifested itself in such pan-Māori movements as the Kīngitanga, Kotahitanga and Te Aute College Students Association. Māori were not passive recipients of print culture, and each of these movements utilized newspapers as a means of disseminating their discourses. Utilizing aspects of Benedict Anderson’s theory on the role of print in the formation of national consciousness, this essay looks at how Pākehā-run newspapers assisted in the development of a collective Māori consciousness, and how each of these movements projected this identity in their own publications.

Direitos Indígenas no Ciberespaço: A conectividade nas margens

by Sara P. Mota

Mota, Sara Pargana. 2010. "Direitos Indígenas no Ciberespaço: A conectividade nas margens". Quaderns-e de l'ICA, 15 (1): 22-42.

A growing concern for the promotion and protection of human rights is now unquestionably interwoven in contemporary... more A growing concern for the promotion and protection of human rights is now unquestionably interwoven in contemporary world issues, and one of the consequences has been the widening of the international discourse on human rights, which now includes collective and indigenous rights. As human rights discourse has become increasingly globalized, indigenous peoples have been using international human rights as a language within which they frame their movements, express their positions and direct their actions. This paper seeks to analyse how information and communication technologies have created a new space that allows the expansion of the recently recognized indigenous rights and how, increasingly, we witness to the appropriation of technology by indigenous communities as a tool for political action and reaffirmation of cultural identity. Approaching the indigenization of information and communication technologies as an example of what might be termed as the cultural construction of technology, this paper also aims to reflect upon the dynamics of visibility/invisibility of indigenous peoples in the information society.

Keywords: human rights, indigenous rights, globalization, information and communication technologies, social mobilization, cyberactivism

Below the Hamelin Line: CKRZ and Aboriginal Cultural Survival

by Charles Fairchild

Canadian Journal of Communication. 23(2), pp. 163-187, 1998.

Jovita Andrade, ambassadrice quechua du cinéma péruvien

by Sylvie Brieu

A profile of Quechua filmmaker, Jovita Andrade

“Kparo: A Study of the Emergence and Death of a Minority Language Newspaper in Nigeria.”

by Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D.

In A. Salawu (ed.) Indigenous language media in Africa, 60-70. Lagos, Nigeria: Center for Black and African Arts and Civilization, 2006.

Alí, Maurizio. (2010). Buen gobierno, intercultura y comunicación participativa. Algunas reflexiones sobre periodismo y asuntos étnicos en Colombia. Revista Miradas

by Maurizio Ali

Published in "Revista Miradas", 2011

En el contexto multicultural reconocido por la Constitución colombiana del 1991, los asuntos étnicos cobran cada día... more En el contexto multicultural reconocido por la Constitución colombiana del 1991, los asuntos étnicos cobran cada día más relevancia en función de su articulación con los procesos de construcción ciudadana. Sin embargo, los medios de información colombianos, a pesar de estar celebrando el bicentenario de una supuesta “independencia”, se encuentran todavía anclados a una visión “colonial” y hegemónica de “lo étnico” que ha fortalecido una meta-realidad excluyente y que ha imposibilitado el desarrollo de una integración pacífica y efectiva de las comunidades indígenas del país: al revés, las ha transformadas en “voces ausentes”. La presente exposición quiere ser una reflexión sobre los vicios y las virtudes del periodismo colombiano con relación a los asuntos étnicos. A partir del análisis de algunos casos de estudio y compartiendo la perspectiva de Antonio Negri acerca de las “grietas” del Imperio, es posible pensar a un periodismo comprometido para la paz, con nuevas modalidades operativas y nuevas estrategias de acción para la construcción de tejido social y el fomento de políticas públicas orientadas hacia el desarrollo humano.

PALABRAS CLAVE
Minorías étnicas, medios de comunicación indígena, radios comunitarias, violencia cultural, ética periodística.

ABSTRACT
In the multicultural context recognized by the 1991 Colombian Constitution, the ethnic issues are everyday more relevant because of their linking with the process of citizenship-building. Nevertheless, the Colombian media, in spite of celebrating the bicentenary of a supposed “independence”, are yet anchored to a “colonial” and hegemonic vision of “the ethnic” which has strengthened an excluding meta-reality and which has make impossible the development of a pacific and effective integration between the indigenous communities of the country: in reverse, they was transformed in “absent voices”. This work would expose the “vices and virtues” of the Colombian journalism in connection with the ethnic issues. Based in some case-studies and sharing the Negri’s perspective about the cracks of the Empire, we can aspire to a journalism compromised with peace, with new strategies of action to build social tissue and to promote public policies human-development-oriented.

KEYWORD
Ethnic issues, ethnic media, community radio, cultural violence, journalism ethic.

Periodismo, Discurso Y Realidad Colombiana: Los Asuntos étnicos Entre Invisibilización Y Exotización Mediática

by Maurizio Ali