COMS 4316 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Media Activism, Apidae
3 Feb 2017
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Reading #1: storytelling photographs, animating anangu by thorne and dallwitz. Ara irititja is an indigenous digital archive for remote communities in central australia. Founded in 1994, the project has always striven to meet two goals: to preserve the media items (photographs, videos/film clips, sound recordings, documents, and artworks) bearing anangu knowledge in ways that embody. Anangu ways of knowing: and to do so using the best technology available and most archivally rigorous standards possible. The archive now holds 150,000 digital media records and is accessed by 30 communities across 250,000 square miles. Throughout australia during those decades, the recognition and return of cultural property was beginning to gain traction. Anangu were becoming increasingly aware of photographs of them taken by missionaries, school teachers, and other non-aboriginal visitors being held elsewhere, and enlisted archival and information technology consultants to develop strategies to get the photos back.
