CASE STUDY ABSTRACT
Presenter: Faye Ginsburg
"Mediating Culture: Aboriginal Media and the Social Transformation of Identity"
Faye D. Ginsburg discussed the use of film and televisual media by Aboriginal Australians to combat the domination of Western popular media in remote communities. She discussed how the introduction of media alters existing social arrangements by introducing new resources and how empowerment is achieved through a "self-conscious social transformation" with the use of indigenous media.
Faye D. Ginsburg is Professor of Anthropology at New York University and Director of NYU's Center for Media, Culture and History. She is author of Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community and, most recently, co-editor of Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and McArthur Genius Award for her work on indigenous media.