Pamela Wilson
I am retired Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia. As of September 2023, I will be living in Jonzac, France, and working as a freelance writer and editor through my company Culture Quest Services (culture-quest-services.com).
My academic work has combined my dual backgrounds in anthropology and media studies in my teaching and research on various aspects of media and cultural representation, often from a historical perspective and with a special interest in the cultural politics of regional, minority, and indigenous media representations and practices.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
• "Indigenous Peoples' Role in Protecting Forest Health," (commissioned article), PublicHealthLandscape.com (June 2023). Available at https://publichealthlandscape.com/2023/06/01/indigenous-peoples-communities-role-in-protecting-forests/.
• “Mountain Butterfly: Dolly Parton’s Transformational Persona in American Country Music,” (invited chapter), Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor (Eds. Thomas M. Kitts & Nick Baxter-Moore), NY: Routledge, 2019.
• “Indigenous Documentary Media” (invited chapter), Contemporary Documentary (Daniel Marcus and Selmin Kara, eds.), Routledge Press, 2015.
• “Indigenous Media: Linking the Local, Translocal, Global and Virtual” (invited chapter), Mediated Geographies/Geographies of Media—International Handbooks of Human Geography Series (Susan Mains, Julie Cupples, and Christopher Lukinbeal, eds.), Springer Publishing, 2015.
• “Indigenous Media,” Oxford Bibliographies Online, Cinema and Media Studies (Editor: Krin Gabbard). Book-length article and annotated bibliography.
• “Ethnographic Film,“ Oxford Bibliographies Online, Cinema and Media Studies (Editor: Krin Gabbard). 2012. Article and annotated bibliography.
• “Native Americans and Media,“ Oxford Bibliographies Online, Cinema and Media Studies (Editor: Krin Gabbard). 2012. Article and annotated bibliography.
• “An Uneasy Truce: Brokering Collaborative Knowledge Building and Commodity Culture,” International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms IJKESDP 3(3/4): 204-239 (2012). PDF available online at http://inderscience.metapress.com/content/t6l42203q7778840/fulltext.pdf
• “John Fiske and Television Culture” (with Greg Smith et al.), Introductory essay in John Fiske, Television Culture (2nd Edition), Routledge, 2010 (1989).
• “Structuralism and Semiotics, Fiske-Style” (with Ron Becker, Elana Levine and Darrell Newton), Introductory essay in John Fiske, Introduction to Communication Studies (3rd Edition), pp. xxxix-xlv. Routledge, 2010 (1982).
• “Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular” (with Kevin Glynn and Jonathan Gray), Introductory essay in John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture (2nd Edition), pp. xxxix-lvii, and in Reading the Popular (2nd Edition), xxxix-lvii. Routledge, 2010 (1989).
• “Stalking the Wild Evidence: Capturing Media History Through Elusive and Ephemeral Archives,” in Convergence Media History (eds. Janet Staiger and Sabine Hake), Routledge Press, 2009.
• Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics and Politics (co-edited with Michelle Stewart); Duke University Press, 2008.
• “Indigeneity and Indigenous Media on the Global Stage,” (co-authored with
Michelle Stewart), In Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Practices and Politics (Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart); Duke University Press, 2008.
• "Jamming Big Brother: Webcasting, Audience Intervention, and Narrative Activism," in Reality TV and the Re-making of Television Culture (Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette, editors), New York University Press, 2004.
• "All Eyes on Montana: Television Audiences, Social Activism, and Native American Cultural Politics in the 1950s," Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Mark Williams, editor, Special Issue; Vol. 16/3-4, pp. 325-356, 1999).
• "Virtual Kinship in a Postmodern World: Computer-Mediated Genealogy
Communities," in On A Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promise of a New Technology (Greg M. Smith, editor), New York University Press (1999).
• "Confronting 'The Indian Problem': Media Discourses of Race, Ethnicity, Nation and Empire in 1950s America," in Living Color: Race and Television in the United States (Sasha Torres, editor), Duke University Press (1998).
• "Mountains of Contradictions: Gender, Class and Region in the Star Image of Dolly Parton," in Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky-Tonk Bars (Cecelia Tichi, Ed.), Durham: Duke University Press (1998), pp. 98-120.
• "Disputable Truths: The American Stranger, Television Documentary and Native American Cultural Politics in the 1950s." Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1996 (available on microfilm from UMI).
• "NBC Television's 'Operation Frontal Lobes': Cultural Hegemony and Fifties Program Planning," Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 15:1 (1995) pp.83-104.
My academic work has combined my dual backgrounds in anthropology and media studies in my teaching and research on various aspects of media and cultural representation, often from a historical perspective and with a special interest in the cultural politics of regional, minority, and indigenous media representations and practices.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
• "Indigenous Peoples' Role in Protecting Forest Health," (commissioned article), PublicHealthLandscape.com (June 2023). Available at https://publichealthlandscape.com/2023/06/01/indigenous-peoples-communities-role-in-protecting-forests/.
• “Mountain Butterfly: Dolly Parton’s Transformational Persona in American Country Music,” (invited chapter), Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor (Eds. Thomas M. Kitts & Nick Baxter-Moore), NY: Routledge, 2019.
• “Indigenous Documentary Media” (invited chapter), Contemporary Documentary (Daniel Marcus and Selmin Kara, eds.), Routledge Press, 2015.
• “Indigenous Media: Linking the Local, Translocal, Global and Virtual” (invited chapter), Mediated Geographies/Geographies of Media—International Handbooks of Human Geography Series (Susan Mains, Julie Cupples, and Christopher Lukinbeal, eds.), Springer Publishing, 2015.
• “Indigenous Media,” Oxford Bibliographies Online, Cinema and Media Studies (Editor: Krin Gabbard). Book-length article and annotated bibliography.
• “Ethnographic Film,“ Oxford Bibliographies Online, Cinema and Media Studies (Editor: Krin Gabbard). 2012. Article and annotated bibliography.
• “Native Americans and Media,“ Oxford Bibliographies Online, Cinema and Media Studies (Editor: Krin Gabbard). 2012. Article and annotated bibliography.
• “An Uneasy Truce: Brokering Collaborative Knowledge Building and Commodity Culture,” International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms IJKESDP 3(3/4): 204-239 (2012). PDF available online at http://inderscience.metapress.com/content/t6l42203q7778840/fulltext.pdf
• “John Fiske and Television Culture” (with Greg Smith et al.), Introductory essay in John Fiske, Television Culture (2nd Edition), Routledge, 2010 (1989).
• “Structuralism and Semiotics, Fiske-Style” (with Ron Becker, Elana Levine and Darrell Newton), Introductory essay in John Fiske, Introduction to Communication Studies (3rd Edition), pp. xxxix-xlv. Routledge, 2010 (1982).
• “Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular” (with Kevin Glynn and Jonathan Gray), Introductory essay in John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture (2nd Edition), pp. xxxix-lvii, and in Reading the Popular (2nd Edition), xxxix-lvii. Routledge, 2010 (1989).
• “Stalking the Wild Evidence: Capturing Media History Through Elusive and Ephemeral Archives,” in Convergence Media History (eds. Janet Staiger and Sabine Hake), Routledge Press, 2009.
• Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics and Politics (co-edited with Michelle Stewart); Duke University Press, 2008.
• “Indigeneity and Indigenous Media on the Global Stage,” (co-authored with
Michelle Stewart), In Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Practices and Politics (Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart); Duke University Press, 2008.
• "Jamming Big Brother: Webcasting, Audience Intervention, and Narrative Activism," in Reality TV and the Re-making of Television Culture (Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette, editors), New York University Press, 2004.
• "All Eyes on Montana: Television Audiences, Social Activism, and Native American Cultural Politics in the 1950s," Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Mark Williams, editor, Special Issue; Vol. 16/3-4, pp. 325-356, 1999).
• "Virtual Kinship in a Postmodern World: Computer-Mediated Genealogy
Communities," in On A Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promise of a New Technology (Greg M. Smith, editor), New York University Press (1999).
• "Confronting 'The Indian Problem': Media Discourses of Race, Ethnicity, Nation and Empire in 1950s America," in Living Color: Race and Television in the United States (Sasha Torres, editor), Duke University Press (1998).
• "Mountains of Contradictions: Gender, Class and Region in the Star Image of Dolly Parton," in Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky-Tonk Bars (Cecelia Tichi, Ed.), Durham: Duke University Press (1998), pp. 98-120.
• "Disputable Truths: The American Stranger, Television Documentary and Native American Cultural Politics in the 1950s." Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1996 (available on microfilm from UMI).
• "NBC Television's 'Operation Frontal Lobes': Cultural Hegemony and Fifties Program Planning," Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 15:1 (1995) pp.83-104.
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Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples are utilizing both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, to advocate for resources and rights, and to preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By representing themselves in a variety of media, Indigenous peoples are also challenging misleading mainstream and official state narratives, forging international solidarity movements, and bringing human rights violations to international attention.
"Global Indigenous Media" addresses Indigenous self-representation across many media forms, including feature film, documentary, animation, video art, television and radio broadcasting, Internet sites, digital archiving, and journalism. This volume's sixteen essays reflect the dynamism of Indigenous media making around the world. Taken together, the essays reveal the crucial role of Indigenous media in contemporary media at every level: local, regional, national, and international.
Contributors and chapters include:
• Indigeneity and Indigenous Media on the Global Stage / Pamela Wilson & Michelle Stewart
• Imperfect Media and the Poetics of Indigenous Video in Latin America / Juan Francisco Salazar and Amalia Cordova
• "Lest Others Speak for Us": The Neglected Roots and Uncertain Future of Maori Cinema in New Zealand / Jennifer Gauthier
• Cache: Provisions and Productions in Contemporary Igloolik Video / Cache Collective;
• Indigenous Animation: Educational Programming, Narrative Interventions, and Children's Cultures / Joanna Hearne
• Media as Our Mirror: Indigenous Media of Burma (Myanmar) / Lisa Brooten
• Transistor Resistors: Native Women's Radio in Canada and the Social Organization of Political Space from Below / Kathleen Buddle
• Weaving a Communication Quilt in Colombia: Civil Conflict, Indigenous Resistance and Community Radio in Northern Cauca / Mario A. Murillo
• Outside the Indigenous Lens: Zapatistas and Autonomous Video Making / Alexandra Halkin
• The Search for Well Being: Placing Development with Indigenous Identity / Laurel Smith
• "To Breathe Two Airs": Empowering Indigenous Sami Media / Sari Pietikainen
• Indigenous Media as an Important Resource for Russia's Indigenous Peoples / Galina Diatchkova
• Indigenous Minority-Language Media: S4C, Cultural Identity, and the Welsh-Language Televisual Community / Ruth McElroy
• Recollecting Indigenous Thinking in a CD-ROM / Priscila Faulhaber and Louis Forline
• Digital Tools and the Management of Australian Aboriginal Desert Knowledge / Michael Christie
• Rethinking the Digital Age / Faye Ginsburg
Papers by Pamela Wilson
a number of intercultural and ideological challenges that an enterprise may face as it expands into a global market and global community of users.
“An Uneasy Truce: Brokering Collaborative Knowledge Building and Commodity Culture,” International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms IJKESDP 3(3/4): 204-239 (2012). PDF available online at http://inderscience.metapress.com/content/t6l42203q7778840/fulltext.pdf
Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples are utilizing both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, to advocate for resources and rights, and to preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By representing themselves in a variety of media, Indigenous peoples are also challenging misleading mainstream and official state narratives, forging international solidarity movements, and bringing human rights violations to international attention.
"Global Indigenous Media" addresses Indigenous self-representation across many media forms, including feature film, documentary, animation, video art, television and radio broadcasting, Internet sites, digital archiving, and journalism. This volume's sixteen essays reflect the dynamism of Indigenous media making around the world. Taken together, the essays reveal the crucial role of Indigenous media in contemporary media at every level: local, regional, national, and international.
Contributors and chapters include:
• Indigeneity and Indigenous Media on the Global Stage / Pamela Wilson & Michelle Stewart
• Imperfect Media and the Poetics of Indigenous Video in Latin America / Juan Francisco Salazar and Amalia Cordova
• "Lest Others Speak for Us": The Neglected Roots and Uncertain Future of Maori Cinema in New Zealand / Jennifer Gauthier
• Cache: Provisions and Productions in Contemporary Igloolik Video / Cache Collective;
• Indigenous Animation: Educational Programming, Narrative Interventions, and Children's Cultures / Joanna Hearne
• Media as Our Mirror: Indigenous Media of Burma (Myanmar) / Lisa Brooten
• Transistor Resistors: Native Women's Radio in Canada and the Social Organization of Political Space from Below / Kathleen Buddle
• Weaving a Communication Quilt in Colombia: Civil Conflict, Indigenous Resistance and Community Radio in Northern Cauca / Mario A. Murillo
• Outside the Indigenous Lens: Zapatistas and Autonomous Video Making / Alexandra Halkin
• The Search for Well Being: Placing Development with Indigenous Identity / Laurel Smith
• "To Breathe Two Airs": Empowering Indigenous Sami Media / Sari Pietikainen
• Indigenous Media as an Important Resource for Russia's Indigenous Peoples / Galina Diatchkova
• Indigenous Minority-Language Media: S4C, Cultural Identity, and the Welsh-Language Televisual Community / Ruth McElroy
• Recollecting Indigenous Thinking in a CD-ROM / Priscila Faulhaber and Louis Forline
• Digital Tools and the Management of Australian Aboriginal Desert Knowledge / Michael Christie
• Rethinking the Digital Age / Faye Ginsburg
a number of intercultural and ideological challenges that an enterprise may face as it expands into a global market and global community of users.
“An Uneasy Truce: Brokering Collaborative Knowledge Building and Commodity Culture,” International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms IJKESDP 3(3/4): 204-239 (2012). PDF available online at http://inderscience.metapress.com/content/t6l42203q7778840/fulltext.pdf