Indigenous media sources

This means Indigenous ownership or control. Some of the major sources here are:

NITV Channel 34 on your TV
Koori Mail
The Koori Mail has a website (www.koorimail.com), but it is a reduced version of the print newspaper available on subscription. Hard copies are available in Fryer Library, in the SS&H tower.

The National Indigenous Times has an online edition (www.nit.com.au).

National Indigenous ?Times
Indigenous Community ?News Network icnn.com.au
The ICNN site runs news stories from Indigenous and mainstream sources.

Central Australian ?Aboriginal Media Association
www.caama.com.au
The CAAMA site includes a link to CAAMA Radio Online News.

Indiginet www.indiginet.com.au/main001.html
Indiginet Multimedia Services is not primarily a news organization, but its goals include “to assist community organisations to maintain ownership of their cultural property and to maintain control over its selective transmission” and “to provide Indigenous cultural information to the wider community where the Indigenous community maintains control over its transmission”.

National Indigenous Radio Service www.nirs.org.au
NIRS is based in Brisbane.

Indigenous Hub, CB Online www.cbonline.org.au/index.cfm?pageId=43,0,26,0
CBOnline is a directory of community radio stations across Australia. Its Indigenous Hub lists Indigenous stations and programs, and includes a history of Indigenous radio.

98.9 FM 989fm.com.au
… is a Brisbane Indigenous Radio station that mainly broadcasts music, though it also hosts talk shows.

ABC Indigenous www.abc.net.au/indigenous/
This is ultimately not Indigenous-owned, but it is a rich source of information and links—and its Editorial and Program Policies are significant (www.abc.net.au/indigenous/education/ethics_codes.htm).
The site also has links to Message Stick (ABC TV: www.abc.net.au/tv/messagestick), Awaye! (Radio National: www.abc.net.au/rn/awaye) and Speaking Out (local radio: www.abc.net.au/speakingout)

Some suggested texts for further reading

This case study asks you to demonstrate an understanding of some of the distinctive aspects of Indigenous media in Australia—something of what they are, how they work, their historical and political background, and how they are funded. Two of the set readings will be very useful here, particularly if you follow up some of their references: they are Downing and Husband’s “Research on Racism, Ethnicity and Media”and Meadows and Molnar’s “Bridging the Gaps: Towards a History of Indigenous Media in Australia”.

 
Other useful sources include:

Hartley, John. “Television, Nation and Indigenous Media”, Television and New Media 5:1 (2004): 7–25.
Hartley, John, and Alan McKee. The Indigenous Public Sphere: The Reporting and Reception of Aboriginal Issues in the Australian Media. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Langton, Marcia. “Well, I Heard it on the Radio and I Saw it on the Television”, AFC, Sydney: AFC, 1988.
Meadows, Michael, Susan Forde and Kerry Foxwell. “Communicating Culture: community media in Australia”, Our Media Not Theirs II, IAMCR pre-conference, Barcelona. 2002. (http://www.ourmedianet.org/papers/om2002/Meadows.om2002.pdf)
Graduate Attributes

The Graduate Attributes which this assignment seeks to foster in particular are:
A knowledge and respect of ethics and ethical understanding in relation to a major area of study
The ability to engage effectively and appropriately with information and communication technologies
The ability to work and learn independently
The ability to collect, analyse and organise information and ideas and to convey those ideas clearly and fluently, in both written and spoken forms
The ability to select and use the appropriate level, style and means of communication
The ability to generate ideas and adapt innovatively to changing environments
The ability to identify problems, create solutions, innovate and improve current practices
The ability to define and analyse problems
The ability to apply critical reasoning to issues through independent thought and informed judgement
An understanding of social and civic responsibility
A knowledge of other cultures and times and an appreciation of cultural diversity