We are seeking contributions to a collection that will address the role of indigenous media in societies around the world, with particular emphasis on the ways in which the increased access by indigenous peoples to new media technologies for production and distribution of media work has raised the profile of indigenous aesthetic perspectives and cultural/political issues both in the mainstream and in new venues for indigenous media expression. This collection will pay careful attention to the diversity of this expression by incorporating discussions of the full range of production: feature film, documentary, video art, multimedia works, television programs, radio broadcasts, internet activism, and journalism. Clearly, growing international and national support has multiplied the outlets for cultural expression: combating discrimination, preserving indigenous cultures and environments, and advocating for cultural rights, such as the right to one's own language, protection of indigenous traditional knowledge and sufficient provision of resources to indigenous peoples and their media to promote indigenous language use. Given the expansiveness of the category of indigenous media, we would like to encourage contributions that think across the divides of geographies, technologies (film, television, radio, internet), cultures, and politics. Moreover, we would like this collection to reflect the interdisciplinarity of indigenous media studies. We thus welcome contributions from Native American studies, cinema and television studies, visual anthropology, cultural studies, art history, journalism, and communication. We will include historical research, local case studies, interviews with producers, cross-cultural analyses,international perspectives, as well as metacritical work.

Submitted essays will be grouped in the following sections: