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Scripps College > The Humanities Institute > 2008 Fall Global Media > Pamela Wilson

October 29, 2008

Pamela Wilson

  • 2008 Fall Global Media

Pamela Wilson is program coordinator and associate professor of communication at Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia. She combines her dual backgrounds in anthropology and media studies in her teaching and research on various aspects of media and cultural representation, often from a historical perspective and with a special interest in the cultural politics of regional, minority, and indigenous media representations and practices. Her work on various topics, including several articles on Native American activism and mainstream media in the mid-twentieth century based on her dissertation research at the University of Wisconsin, as well as her work on television and popular culture, has been published in numerous anthologies and journals, including Television and New Media; Quarterly Review of Film and Video; Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television; Camera Obscura; and South Atlantic Quarterly.

In this exciting collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and/or created by Indigenous peoples around the globe. Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or Indigenous radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples are utilizing mass media to combat discrimination, to advocate for resources and rights, and to preserve their cultures, languages, and traditions. By representing themselves in a variety of media, Indigenous peoples are also challenging misleading mainstream and official state narratives, forging international solidarity movements, and bringing human rights violations to international attention.

Global Indigenous Media addresses Indigenous self-representation across many media forms, including feature film, documentary, video art, television programs, radio broadcasts, Internet activism, and journalism. The volume’s sixteen essays reflect the dynamism of Indigenous media making around the world. One contributor examines animated educational films for children produced by Indigenous-owned companies in the United States and Canada. Another explains how the Indigenous media of Burma (Myanmar) works with NGOs and outsiders against the country’s brutal regime. Still another considers how the Ticuna Indians of Brazil are positioning themselves in relation to the international community as they collaborate in the creation of a CD-ROM featuring Ticuna knowledge and rituals. In the volume’s closing essay, Faye Ginsburg points out some of the problematic assumptions about globalization, media, and culture underlying the term “the digital age” and claims that it has arrived. Taken together, the essays reveal the crucial role of Indigenous media in contemporary media at every level: local and regional, national and international.

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