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Book SynopsisAround the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience. This is the first portrait of a powerful international movement that looks both inward and outward, helping to preserve ancient languages and cultures...
Trade Review “In sum, New Media Nationoffers scholars of minorities, of digital media and of globalizing indigeneities the opportunity to understand how the practices of producing meanings through discourses of resistance contribute over time to the development and re-invigoration of alternative discourses often thought to have been dissolved by the spread of ‘mass media’. By engaging in micro-analyses of specific cultural discourses and their elaboration in specific emergent media situations, Alia alerts her readers to the importance of the complexity of the local.” • Discourse & Communication
“…a scholar with extensive knowledge of indigenous life in the Canadian North, has compiled a valuable and timely compendium on how Native societies from the Arctic to Australia use new media technologies to reinforce local cultures and establish global connections…Highly recommended.” • Choice
“There is a lot of fascinating material in this book and it is striking that, the internet notwithstanding, radio remains central to indigenous media activity… Alia provides a very useful chronology which, although it starts in 11,000 BC, concentrates on developments in the last 100 years. There is also a filmography of indigenous films and videos.” • British Journal of Canadian Studies
“Alia should be commended for revealing a world of indigenous media use. This wide-ranging study lays a foundation for the study of how indigenous people use new media technologies, and future researchers of indigenous media use will want to use this book as a starting point.” • Anthropos
“Alia has crafted an accessible book for many audiences. It is easy to read; includes critical theory that is relevant, applicable and understandable; and flows through the many points of entry for indigenous people into the new media nation…The book is scholarly, yet it also reveals the depth and span of networks created by the new media nation that can be enhanced through awareness. The New Media Nation is brave and hopeful. As a document of the many instances of indigenous media, it captures events, experiences and testimony. It is also innately reflective of a network of global resistance, linking many indigenous groups’ affirmation of identity through the new media.” • The International Journal of Communication
Table of Contents List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Language and Research Methods
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: How I Came to Be Here
Chapter 1. Scattered Voices, Global Vision
Chapter 2. Pathways and Obstacles: Government Policy and Media (Mis)Representation
Chapter 3. Lessons from Canada: Amplifying Indigenous Voices
Chapter 4. Turning the Camera and Microphone on Oneself
Chapter 5. We Have Seen the Future: ‘Standing with Legs in Both Cultures’
Chronology of Key Events and Developments
Appendix: Statement of Principles for Native News Network of Canada
Filmography: Indigenous Films, Videos and Audio Recordings
Bibliography
Notes
Index
