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What people are saying - Write a reviewUser Review - Flag as inappropriate An excellent study of the ground-breaking and influential work of First Peoples in Canada. Editorial Review - Canadian Book Review Annual Something New in the Air traces the history of First Peoplesbroadcasting up to and including the establishment of what is now knownas the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). The author identifies six distinct phases of that history: thestereotypical misrepresentation of First Peoples; the emergence ofAboriginal broadcasting policies; the consolidation and expansion ofbroadcasting infrastructure; the CRTC’s granting of a licence toTelevision Northern Canada (TVNC) “for the purpose of broadcastingcultural, social, political and educational programming for the benefitof aboriginal people in the north”; the expansion of Aboriginalprogramming to the south, a process that initially involved the sellingof program services to raise money; and the founding of the AboriginalPeoples Television Network (APTN). As Roth’s engaging study demonstrates, instead of allowing the mediato further erode their culture, the First Peoples succeeded in using themedia as a tool for self-development and for mediating social and racerelations. Editorial Review - Canadian Book Review Annual Something New in the Air traces the history of First Peoplesbroadcasting up to and including the establishment of what is now knownas the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). The author identifies six distinct phases of that history: thestereotypical misrepresentation of First Peoples; the emergence ofAboriginal broadcasting policies; the consolidation and expansion ofbroadcasting infrastructure; the CRTC’s granting of a licence toTelevision Northern Canada (TVNC) “for the purpose of broadcastingcultural, social, political and educational programming for the benefitof aboriginal people in the north”; the expansion of Aboriginalprogramming to the south, a process that initially involved the sellingof program services to raise money; and the founding of the AboriginalPeoples Television Network (APTN). As Roth’s engaging study demonstrates, instead of allowing the mediato further erode their culture, the First Peoples succeeded in using themedia as a tool for self-development and for mediating social and racerelations. Related books
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Common terms and phrasesaboriginal broadcasting Aboriginal languages Aboriginal Peoples Television Anik APTN aptn's audiences Baker Lake broadcast Original Broadcasting Act broadcasting services cable Canadian society Cancom Cape Dorset CBC Newsworld CBC Northern Service CBC's challenge Challenge for Change channel constituency groups context cross-cultural CRTC cultural decision discourses distribution Eskimo establish federal government Frobisher Bay Hours per week Igloolik images impact Indian indigenous media infrastructure initiatives interest Inuit Broadcasting Corporation Inukshuk Inuktitut issues license live mainstream ment multicultural Native Communications Societies native-language NCSs needs Newsworld NNBY non-native North Northern Canada Northern communications Northern Native Broadcasting Northern television Northwest Territories NQIA OKalaKatiget organizations Ottawa paradigm perspective planning political population priorities production projects radio broadcast regional Rerun satellite social South Southern stations Taqramiut Nipingat television broadcasting Television Network television programming television service tion TVNC tvnC's Valaskakis viewers workshop World Yellowknife Yukon Popular passagesPage 162 - ICCPR provides that in those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons belonging to these minorities shall not be denied the right, in community with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practice their own religion, or to use their own language. Page 167 - Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age, or mental or physical disability. Page 12 - The co-existence of several nations under the same State is a test, as well as the best security of its freedom. Page 18 - ... culture or a transition from one to the other"— is often conflated in recent cultural theory with Gramsci's concept of "hegemony." Indeed, Williams writes in Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), "We have certainly still to speak of the 'dominant... Page 167 - Canadian creative and other resources, and is to serve the needs and interests and reflect the circumstances and aspirations, of Canadian men, women and children. These circumstances include equal rights, linguistic duality, the multicultural and multiracial nature of Canadian society, as well as the special place of aboriginal peoples within that society. Page 224 - It follows that no topics should be ruled off limits in advance of such contestation. On the contrary, democratic publicity requires positive guarantees of opportunities for minorities to convince others that what in the past was not public in the sense of being a matter of common concern should now become so/" What, then, of the sense of "publicity" as pertaining to a common good or shared interest? Page 244 - World is the name given to indigenous peoples descended from a country's aboriginal population and who today are completely or partly deprived of their own territory and its riches. The peoples of the 4th World have only limited influence or none at all in the nation state [in which they are now encapsulated]. The peoples to whom we refer are the Indians of North and South America, the Inuit (Eskimos), the Sami people [of northern Scandinavia], the Australian aborigines, as well as the various indigenous... Page 146 - We might liken the onslaught of southern television and the absence of native television to the neutron bomb. This is the bomb that kills the people but leaves the buildings standing. Neutron bomb television is the kind of television that destroys the soul of a people but leaves the shell of a people walking around. Page 86 - But it must also provide channels by which these people may discuss with their fellow villagers and with other villages what policies and practices they shall adopt; and it must provide channels by which the needs and wishes of the villagers may be carried up the hierarchy to form a part of higherlevel decisions. Thus, far from suggesting that we "manipulate... Page 41 - In the first place, policy is formed by preconceptions, by longimplanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood. References to this bookFrom other books
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