..".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
Around 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 while communicating
across cultural, political, and geographical boundaries. Based on
more than twenty years of research, observation, and work
experience in Indigenous journalism, film, music, and visual art,
this volume includes specialized studies of Inuit in the
circumpolar north, and First Nations peoples in the Yukon and
southern Canada and the United States.
Valerie Alia is Adjunct Professor in the Doctor of Social
Sciences program at Royal Roads University (Canada). An
award-winning scholar, journalist, photographer and poet, she was
Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington
University, Running Stream Professor of Ethics and Identity at
Leeds Metropolitan University, a research associate of the Scott
Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University, and a television
and radio broadcaster, newspaper and magazine writer and arts
reviewer in the US and Canada. Her books include: "Un/Covering the
North: News, Media and Aboriginal People; Media Ethics and Social
Change;" and "Names and Nunavut: Culture and Identity in the Inuit
Homeland." She is a founding member of the International Arctic
Social Sciences Association.
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