Indigenous New Media Symposium | Jarrett Martineau by INMS2014-NYC

The Indigenous New Media Symposium brought together Native American and First Nation media makers and creative activists to discuss how new media platforms are being used in the indigenous community to educate, organize, entertain, and advocate. In the past few years blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other tools have become important mechanisms to communicate indigenous perspectives in North America. Traditional media's long history of native stereotypes is being confronted by a new tech-savvy young generation that is speaking out strongly about cultural, political and economic issues.

Jarrett Martineau (Cree/Dene) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics. His research examines the role of Indigenous art in decolonization movements and contemporary forms of Indigenous political communication, digital media, technology, and performance—such as Indigenous hip-hop—as means of remixing/reimagining/revisioning indigeneity. He is the co-founder and Creative Producer of Revolutions Per Minute (www.rpm.fm), a global new music platform to promote Indigenous music culture; he runs the Decolonizing Media blog; and he is an organizer with the Indigenous Nationhood Movement (www.nationsrising.org)

Sponsored the School of Media Studies at The New School. February 21st, 2014
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