Research Catalog

Title

Songlines to satellites : indigenous communication in Australia, the South Pacific and Canada / Helen Molnar and Michael Meadows.

Author

Molnar, Helen, 1952-

Publication

Annandale, NSW [Australia] : Pluto Press ; Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand : Huia Publishers, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Meadows, Michael, 1948-

Description

xxx, 258 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Examines how indigenous people in Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific Island countries and Canada make use of their own communications technologies as cultural, social and polictical resources.

Subject

• Indigenous peoples and mass media > Australia
• Indigenous peoples and mass media > Oceania
• Indigenous peoples and mass media > Canada
• Indigenous mass media > Canada
• Autochtones et médias
• Médias autochtones

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-247) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Voices of the people -- Australia : Finding a voice : Indigenous media policy development -- Speaking out : Emergence of indigenous newspapers & radio -- Cultural nerve gas & cultural resources : Indigenous video, television & film -- South Pacific : Reaching out : Rise of radio -- Leap of faith : Emergence of big television -- Negotiating control : Possibilities of small television -- Canada : Syllabics & satellites : Rise of Aboriginal media -- Neutron bomb television & native air rights : Policy development -- Way people want to talk.

ISBN

• 1552660818
• 1864030283 (Pluto Press)

OCLC

• 50589229
• SCSB-10837207

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library