Indigenous Media Engagement


This team is focused on how Indigenous media makers articulate Indigenous concerns to multiple publics through diverse media forms. They will develop a quantitative and qualitative analysis of current practices in Indigenous-focused media initiatives. It considers how Indigenous media makers might inform and enhance best practices for the dissemination of Indigenous scholarship to broader audiences without diminishing necessary historical and cultural contexts.

The team has partnered with Indigenous media makers to develop recommendations for more accurate and culturally informed media practices and will design and facilitate media training to share these practices. 

Research Team

Industry Partner

Candis Callison PhD

Associate Profesor

School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, and Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia

Daniel Justice PhD

Professor

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture, University of British Columbia

Rick Harp

Founder/President of the INDIGENA Creative Group

Producer and host of the MEDIA INDIGENA podcast.

Theme news

Behind the Bylines: Featuring Our Research Leads

Behind the Bylines: Featuring Our Research Leads

By: Zachary Andrade Mary Lynn Young Mary-Lynn Young, PhD, is a lead researcher and professor at the University of British …
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Indigenous journalisms explored by MEDIA INDIGENA podcast series

By Megavarshini G. Somasundaram A new way to delve into Indigenous journalisms was explored by project partner MEDIA INDIGENA, in …
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Callison and Tworek named Canada Research Chairs

Two members of the Global Journalism Innovation Lab team, Candis Callison and Heidi Tworek, have been appointed as Canada Research …

Industry Partner Podcast

An Indigenous-owned and operated current affairs podcast, MEDIA INDIGENA also features First Peoples’ news, views and creative expression. MEDIA INDIGENA has been partnered with the Global Journalism Innovation Lab since 2022.

Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 3 (ep 362) MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs

ON THIS EPISODE: part three of 'the White Possessive,' the latest in our five-part series on the seminar, "Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of 'Collaboration.'" This time around, the property in question is intellectual. Rooted in a talk by Olga Ulturgasheva (Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester), we digest and discuss her account of how unscrupulous colleagues misappropriated and misrepresented her personal stories and observations, a case study in what she calls "epistemological extractivism."  Returning to the roundtable with host/producer Rick Harp are MI regulars Kim TallBear (Professor of American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) and Candis Callison (Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at UBC).  CREDITS: Our intro/extro theme is 'nesting' by birocratic; 'Magnetic' by 1000 Handz (CC BY).
  1. Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 3 (ep 362)
  2. Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 2 (ep 361)
  3. Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 1 (ep 360)
  4. Storytelling on stolen land: Indigenous eyes on Canadian politics, Pt 2 (ep 359)
  5. Storytelling on stolen land: Indigenous eyes on Canadian politics, Pt 1 (ep 358)
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