Mass Media Access and Indigenous Communal Engagement

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。许多土著社区利用无线电战略来保护自己的语言，保存文化生活方式和遗产，并在土著群体内部和群体之间就这些独特的边缘化社区所特有的问题进行交流。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。更好地对土著广播对传统社区价值观的影响进行人类学研究，对于我们理解积极、自主的文化变革非常重要。这些工作还将与土著社区和研究人员建立合作关系，从而确保土著自治、自给自足和知情参与的能力。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。本计划探讨可公开及自由的媒体对原住民社群的社群主义及参与有何影响。它特别审查土著社区内以无线电为基础的大众媒体传播，以了解通信基础设施在了解土著法律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程度不同的五个社区，并将包括调查（每个社区47人）、对每个社区较小子样本的访谈以及基于社区的方法。内容分析将包括代码的协作开发和结果的验证。本研究的策略和目标将大大提高对社群主义的人类学认识。协作和以社区为基础的方法将有助于建立一个更加尊重和公平的人类学科学，促进土著学者对研究数据的所有权和知识的共同生产。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.