Indigenous Media from U-matic to Youtube
Media Sovereignty in the Digital Age, by Faye Ginsburg
Ginsburg, F. (2016) Indigenous Media from U-matic to Youtube: Media Sovereignty in the Digital Age - Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 6 (3), Sep-Dec 2016
'This article covers a wide range of projects from the earliest epistemological challenges posed by video experiments in remote Central Australia in the 1980s to the emergence of indigenous filmmaking as an intervention into both the Australian national imaginary and the idea of world cinema. It also addresses the political activism that led to the creation of four national indigenous television stations in the early 21st century: Aboriginal People’s Television Network in Canada; National Indigenous Television in Australia; Maori TV in New Zealand; and Taiwan Indigenous Television in Taiwan; and considers what the digital age might mean for indigenous people worldwide employing great technological as well as political creativity.'
Faye Ginsburg is Director of the Center for Media, Culture & History and Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University. Author and editor of four books, she is currently working on Mediating Culture: Indigenous Media in the Digital Age, based on over thirty years of research with, support of, and advocacy for Indigenous media makers in the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Brazil, and Mexico.
