Mass Media Access and Indigenous Communal Engagement

开放和免费的大众媒体为农村和偏远地区的社区提供重要的信息、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制衡，土著大众媒体节目在文化变革的浪潮中具有动态的地位。更好的人类学研究土著广播对传统社区价值观的影响，对于我们理解积极的、自主的文化变化很重要。这种工作还将与土著社区和研究人员建立合作关系，以确保土著自治、自给自足和知情参与的能力。该项目培训了一名博士后研究人员，其中包括几名来自代表性较低背景的合作者。该项目探讨了可公开访问的自由媒体对土著社区的社区主义和参与度的影响。它具体审查了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的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，将包括调查(每个社区47个)、对每个社区的较小小样本的访谈以及基于社区的方法。内容分析将包括合作开发代码和验证调查结果。这项研究的策略和目标将极大地提高人类学对社群主义的理解。合作和以社区为基础的方法将有助于建立一个更尊重、更公平的人类学科学，促进研究数据的所有权和土著学者共同创造知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，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.