Call for Abstracts
Submissions to begin October 22, 2018 with a final deadline of January 15, 2019.
(You must also Register for the Conference to present at the conference.)
Indigenous Engagement with Digital and Electronic Media
The study of Indigenous media is a relatively new and rapidly expanding field combining innovative research in anthropology with theoretical perspectives from media studies. Currently, the field is evolving at such a “dizzying” rate that it is nearly impossible to keep track of all the innovations, novel applications, and sociocultural impacts transpiring. We invite researchers and media makers to join us to share and discuss these rapid changes in Indigenous media with a focus on Latin America.
Call for Abstracts
We are interested in a variety of topics and approaches (ranging from viewer/user agency to media effects), including, but not limited to how different groups may engage and be impacted by media as they:
- Watch, interpret, or create television messages
- Fashion, comprehend and interact with radio texts
- Construct and view their own cultural representations on film and upload them to the Internet
- Build websites to archive culture materials
- Construct social networks in cyberspace among themselves and other groups
- Utilize cell phones to not only communicate but also film in culturally appropriate manners
- Preserve disappearing languages
- Encourage intergenerational dialog and cultural transmission
- Record events for political leverage
- Explore new marketing or consumption opportunities
- Are simply expressive and creative in conceptualization of cultural identity through media
- Produce media in collaboration with non-Indigenous partners
We welcome presentations on:
Institutional analysis of Indigenous media (e.g. the evolution of traditional and new spaces and platforms for expression of Indigenous concerns, the impact of transnational networking with other Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples);
Textual analysis (e.g. content analysis of themes, genres, representations, as well as current thinking on authenticity of Indigenous media in terms of hybridity and indigeneity); and
Audience/reception studies (e.g. the dynamics of media engagement and consumption in local communities in terms of technological constraints, issues of ownership and access, signification of technology as material object and communication modality, displacement of public activities, creation of new habits of spectatorship, and impact upon worldviews).
