Mass Media Access and Indigenous Communal Engagement

大众媒体接触和土著社区参与

• 批准号: 2241982
• 负责人: Carolyn Smith-Morris
• 金额: $ 48.38万
• 依托单位: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2026-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241982&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mass; Media; Access; Indigenous; Communal

Open and free mass media provide important information, connection, and protections to communities in rural and remote areas. Many Indigenous communities have utilized radio strategies to protect their language, to preserve cultural lifeways and heritage, and to communicate within and across Indigenous groups about issues distinctive to these uniquely marginalized communities. As a counterweight to outside social and economic forces that advance individualism and commodity-driven lifestyles, Indigenous mass media programs have a dynamic position in the tides of culture change. Better anthropological research on the impact of Indigenous radio on traditional, communal values is important to our understanding of positive, self-determined culture change. Such work will also build collaborative ties with Indigenous communities and researchers, so that Indigenous capacity for self-governance, self-sufficiency, and informed engagement is ensured. The project trains a postdoctoral researcher and includes several collaborators from underrepresented backgrounds.This project explores what impact of publicly accessible and free media has on communalism and engagement in Indigenous communities. It specifically examines radio-based mass media communication within Indigenous communities to understand what role communications infrastructure might have in understanding pathways for Indigenous legal protections and sovereignty. Research will focus on five communities with varying levels of radio access and coverage and will include surveys (n=47 for each community), interviews with a smaller subsample from each community, and community-based methods. Content analysis will include collaborative development of codes and validation of the findings. The strategies and targets of this research will substantially improve anthropological understanding of communalism. The collaborative and community-based methods will contribute to a more respectful, equitable science of anthropology, fostering ownership of research data and co-production of knowledge by Indigenous scholars.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

开放和自由的大众媒体为农村和偏远地区的社区提供了重要的信息、联系和保护。许多土著社区利用广播战略来保护他们的语言，保护文化生活方式和遗产，并在土著群体内部和之间就这些独特的边缘化社区特有的问题进行沟通。作为对推动个人主义和商品驱动的生活方式的外部社会和经济力量的平衡，土著大众媒体节目在文化变革的浪潮中具有动态地位。对土著广播对传统社区价值观的影响进行更好的人类学研究，对我们理解积极的、自主的文化变革很重要。这项工作还将与土著社区和研究人员建立合作关系，以确保土著人民的自治、自给自足和知情参与能力。该项目培养了一名博士后研究员，并包括几名来自代表性不足背景的合作者。该项目探讨了公众可访问和自由媒体对社区主义和土著社区参与的影响。它具体审查了土著社区内基于无线电的大众媒体通信，以了解通信基础设施在理解土著法律的保护和主权途径方面可能发挥的作用。研究将侧重于无线电接入和覆盖水平不同的五个社区，并将包括调查（每个社区n=47），对每个社区的较小子样本进行访谈，以及基于社区的方法。内容分析将包括合作制定代码和验证调查结果。本研究的策略与目标，将大大增进人类学对社群主义的理解。合作和社区为基础的方法将有助于人类学的一个更尊重，公平的科学，促进研究数据的所有权和知识的土著学者的共同生产。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。