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Something New in the AirThe Story of First Peoples Television Broadcasting in Canada |
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A definitive history of the pioneering efforts of Television Northern Canada and APTN.
"A powerful, timely and much-needed reminder of what can be achieved when community needs, government policy, and technological resources are aligned." Meridian
After decades of distorted stereotyping by the media, Canada's First Peoples began to take control of their own image by creating a broadcast industry to transmit their own representations and perspectives. Something New in the Air charts the development of indigenous television broadcasting within the wider context of Canadian contemporary, multicultural society from the 1960s to the present.
Lorna Roth focuses on the regional, national, and global implications of Television Northern Canada and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), the only dedicated aboriginal television service in the world and available to every household in Canada with cable and satellite. She shows that by making their programming an integral part of the Canadian broadcasting infrastructure, First Peoples have succeeded in mediating their own historically ruptured pasts and creating a provocative model for media resistance. Concentrating on policy development, Roth explains how First Peoples in Canada have refashioned television broadcasting, indigenizing and transforming it into a tool for inter-community and national development. Something New in the Air valorizes the struggle of First Peoples to attain legislated recognition of their collective communications and cultural rights and shows how this struggle explains, in part, why they are now acknowledged as having the most advanced aboriginal broadcasting network in the world.
After decades of distorted stereotyping by the media, Canada's First Peoples began to take control of their own image by creating a broadcast industry to transmit their own representations and perspectives. Something New in the Air charts the development of indigenous television broadcasting within the wider context of Canadian contemporary, multicultural society from the 1960s to the present.
Lorna Roth focuses on the regional, national, and global implications of Television Northern Canada and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), the only dedicated aboriginal television service in the world and available to every household in Canada with cable and satellite. She shows that by making their programming an integral part of the Canadian broadcasting infrastructure, First Peoples have succeeded in mediating their own historically ruptured pasts and creating a provocative model for media resistance. Concentrating on policy development, Roth explains how First Peoples in Canada have refashioned television broadcasting, indigenizing and transforming it into a tool for inter-community and national development. Something New in the Air valorizes the struggle of First Peoples to attain legislated recognition of their collective communications and cultural rights and shows how this struggle explains, in part, why they are now acknowledged as having the most advanced aboriginal broadcasting network in the world.
Details
Part of the McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies (number 43 in series)
320 Pages, 6 x 9
40 b&w photographs
ISBN 9780773528567
May 2005
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"Something New in the Air contains such a well-developed story and is constructed so skillfully that it will draw interest beyond narrow scholarly categorizations. Something New in the Air is about Canada, and its peoples, cultures, geographies, histories, politics, technologies, and futures. Roth's incredible synthesis of detail gives it a depth which makes it an asset to university courses in a variety of disciplines" Madelaine Jacobs, Canadian Literature
"This excellent and extremely important book links a highly documented and historically precise account to a series of policy issues regarding ethnic diversity, national integration, economic development, cultural autonomy and media uses. It will be a leading and standard reference work on Northern media development." John D.H. Downing, director, Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University
"This long-awaited publication is destined to become the definitive account of Canadian First People's continuing "cultural persistence" through the powerful tools of broadcast media. As a scholarly study of Aboriginal communications' development in Canada, it has no peer." Michael Meadows, Griffith University, Canadian Journal of Sociology
"A powerful, timely and much-needed reminder of what can be achieved when community needs, government policy, and technological resources are aligned." Meridian
"This excellent and extremely important book links a highly documented and historically precise account to a series of policy issues regarding ethnic diversity, national integration, economic development, cultural autonomy and media uses. It will be a leading and standard reference work on Northern media development." John D.H. Downing, director, Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University
"This long-awaited publication is destined to become the definitive account of Canadian First People's continuing "cultural persistence" through the powerful tools of broadcast media. As a scholarly study of Aboriginal communications' development in Canada, it has no peer." Michael Meadows, Griffith University, Canadian Journal of Sociology
"A powerful, timely and much-needed reminder of what can be achieved when community needs, government policy, and technological resources are aligned." Meridian
Lorna Roth is associate professor and chair, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University.
Something New in the Air
Lorna Roth
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Context
0.1 Demographic Trends 21
0.2 Macro-economic Trends 34
0.3 Macro-technological Trends 48
1 AGE GROUPS
1.1Youth 64
1.2 Elders 74
2 MICROSOCIAL
2.1 Self-identification 82
2.2 Kinship Networks 85
2.3 Community and Neighbourhood Types 89
2.4 Local Autonomy 96
2.5 Voluntary Associations 103
2.6 Sociability Networks 109
3 WOMEN
3.1 Female Roles 116
3.2 Childbearing 129
3.3 Matrimonial Models 145
3.4 Women’s Employment 158
3.5 Reproductive Technologies 168
4 LABOUR MARKET
4.1 Unemployment 176
4.2 Skills and Occupational Levels 187
4.3 Types of Employment 189
4.4 Sectors of the Labour Force 204
4.5 Computerization of Work 209
5 LABOUR AND MANAGEMENT
5.1 Work Organization 217
5.2 Personnel Administration 223
5.3 Size and Types of Enterprises 228
6 SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
6.1 Occupational Status 232
6.2 Social Mobility 239
6.3 Economic Inequality 248
6.4 Social Inequality 262
7 SOCIAL RELATIONS
7.1 Conflict 269
7.2 Negotiation 279
7.3 Norms of Conduct 284
7.4 Authority 290
7.5 Public Opinion 294
8 STATE AND SERVICE INSTITUTIONS
8.1 Educational System 302
8.2 Health System 314
8.3 Welfare System 323
8.4 The State 334
9 MOBILIZING INSTITUTIONS
9.1 Labour Unions 353
9.2 Religious Institutions 359
9.3 Military Forces 372
9.4 Political Parties 386
9.5 Mass Media 393
10 INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF SOCIAL FORCES
10.1 Dispute Settlement 401
10.2 Institutionalization of Labour Unions 407
10.3 Social Movements 410
10.4 Interest Groups 420
11 IDEOLOGIES
11.1 Political Differentiation 424
11.2 Confidence in Institutions 433
11.3 Economic Orientations 439
11.4 Radicalism 446
11.5 Religious Beliefs 451
12 HOUSEHOLD RESOURCES
12.1 Personal and Family Income 456
12.2 Informal Economy 467
12.3 Personal and Family Wealth 471
13 LIFE STYLE
13.1 Market Goods and Services 481
13.2 Mass Information 488
13.3 Personal Health and Beauty Practices 493
13.4 Time Use 499
13.5 Daily Mobility 502
13.6 Household Production 506
13.7 Forms of Erotic Expression 513
13.8 Mood-altering Substances 522
14 LEISURE
14.1 Amount and Use of Free Time 531
14.2 Vacation Patterns 535
14.3 Athletics and Sports 540
14.4 Cultural Activities 549
15 EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
15.1 General Education 559
15.2 Vocational Education 574
15.3 Continuing Education 584
16 INTEGRATION AND MARGINALIZATION
16.1 Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities 589
16.2 Crime and Punishment 598
16.3 Emotional Disorders and Self-Destructive Behaviour 610
16.4 Poverty 616
17 ATTITUDES AND VALUES
17.1 Satisfaction 627
17.2 Perception of Social Problems 634
17.3 Orientations toward the Future 641
17.4 Values 649
17.5 National Identity 657
Lorna Roth
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Context
0.1 Demographic Trends 21
0.2 Macro-economic Trends 34
0.3 Macro-technological Trends 48
1 AGE GROUPS
1.1Youth 64
1.2 Elders 74
2 MICROSOCIAL
2.1 Self-identification 82
2.2 Kinship Networks 85
2.3 Community and Neighbourhood Types 89
2.4 Local Autonomy 96
2.5 Voluntary Associations 103
2.6 Sociability Networks 109
3 WOMEN
3.1 Female Roles 116
3.2 Childbearing 129
3.3 Matrimonial Models 145
3.4 Women’s Employment 158
3.5 Reproductive Technologies 168
4 LABOUR MARKET
4.1 Unemployment 176
4.2 Skills and Occupational Levels 187
4.3 Types of Employment 189
4.4 Sectors of the Labour Force 204
4.5 Computerization of Work 209
5 LABOUR AND MANAGEMENT
5.1 Work Organization 217
5.2 Personnel Administration 223
5.3 Size and Types of Enterprises 228
6 SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
6.1 Occupational Status 232
6.2 Social Mobility 239
6.3 Economic Inequality 248
6.4 Social Inequality 262
7 SOCIAL RELATIONS
7.1 Conflict 269
7.2 Negotiation 279
7.3 Norms of Conduct 284
7.4 Authority 290
7.5 Public Opinion 294
8 STATE AND SERVICE INSTITUTIONS
8.1 Educational System 302
8.2 Health System 314
8.3 Welfare System 323
8.4 The State 334
9 MOBILIZING INSTITUTIONS
9.1 Labour Unions 353
9.2 Religious Institutions 359
9.3 Military Forces 372
9.4 Political Parties 386
9.5 Mass Media 393
10 INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF SOCIAL FORCES
10.1 Dispute Settlement 401
10.2 Institutionalization of Labour Unions 407
10.3 Social Movements 410
10.4 Interest Groups 420
11 IDEOLOGIES
11.1 Political Differentiation 424
11.2 Confidence in Institutions 433
11.3 Economic Orientations 439
11.4 Radicalism 446
11.5 Religious Beliefs 451
12 HOUSEHOLD RESOURCES
12.1 Personal and Family Income 456
12.2 Informal Economy 467
12.3 Personal and Family Wealth 471
13 LIFE STYLE
13.1 Market Goods and Services 481
13.2 Mass Information 488
13.3 Personal Health and Beauty Practices 493
13.4 Time Use 499
13.5 Daily Mobility 502
13.6 Household Production 506
13.7 Forms of Erotic Expression 513
13.8 Mood-altering Substances 522
14 LEISURE
14.1 Amount and Use of Free Time 531
14.2 Vacation Patterns 535
14.3 Athletics and Sports 540
14.4 Cultural Activities 549
15 EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
15.1 General Education 559
15.2 Vocational Education 574
15.3 Continuing Education 584
16 INTEGRATION AND MARGINALIZATION
16.1 Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities 589
16.2 Crime and Punishment 598
16.3 Emotional Disorders and Self-Destructive Behaviour 610
16.4 Poverty 616
17 ATTITUDES AND VALUES
17.1 Satisfaction 627
17.2 Perception of Social Problems 634
17.3 Orientations toward the Future 641
17.4 Values 649
17.5 National Identity 657
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