Re‐claiming a cultural identity: Indigenous media production in Australia and Canada

What's in a Dedication? On Being a Warlpiri DJ

“…She knows that he will always play her requests, whereas the women worhng at Yuendumu will not. This wider political context provides an important counterpoint to the view expressed by commentators on indigenous media that see such projects as 'community owned' and driven, and indeed constituted in and of something called 'community' (see for example Michaels 1989;Molnar 1990;Langton 1993;Meadows 1994;Ginsburg 1995).…”

“…In saying something about this arena of Warlpiri practice I shall also problematise what I take to have been the dominant discourse within which indigenous people's utilisation of new media3 has been conceptualised over the past two decades, most particularly the suggestion that such interactions be conceptualised in the terms of 'cultural maintenance' and 'resistance' to dominant national and global cultural forms (see Michaels 1986Michaels , 1989Michaels , 1994Molnar 1990;Meadows 1994) or as a form of 'cultural activism' (Ginsburg 2002). In this respect, the paper seeks to contribute to current debates within anthropology and cultural studies about the nature of indigenous peoples' engagements with and responses to technologically accelerated globalisation, and to grapple with the complex doubleedged process in which indigenous social forms produce distinctive meanings in their articulation with new things, while themselves simultaneously undergoing some kind of transformation (cf.…”

Community business: the internet in remote Australian Indigenous communities

“…There is a strong need for longer-term, ethnographic research to understand fully the uses, benefits and limitations of internet technologies for remote Indigenous communities (for earlier examples, see Meadows, 1994;Michaels, 1987).…”

“…While the present study has identified a number of key principles that will enable better introduction of internet facilities to remote Indigenous communities in Australia, it faced several limitations in its research design and application. There is a strong need for longer-term, ethnographic research to understand fully the uses, benefits and limitations of internet technologies for remote Indigenous communities (for earlier examples, see Meadows, 1994;Michaels, 1987).…”

Starting Fire with Gunpowder revisited: Inuktitut New Media content creation in the Canadian Arctic

“…This concept has in fact been applied to the Inuit (Joseph 2006;Meadows 1994). Gramsci's work may be considered well suited to understanding of linguistic hegemony because Gramsci was particularly interested, as was Bourdieu, in dominant groups and subordination through language.…”