Book review: Jennifer Deger: Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community

Abstract

From the perspective of communication studies, research on alternative and community media often focuses on such key analytical dimensions as democracy, cultural identity, community communication, and community networks (Jankowski, 2002). From an anthropological perspective, studies on popular media accessed by the general public and the interaction between (new) technology and community understandably focus on issues of collective/ethnic identity. The anthropological approach is not without its limitations in terms of scholarly novelty. But it allows for an indepth and multidimensional examination of media, ethnicity, and cultural identity, providing a wide window for those less familiarized with cultural studies.