Abstract
This essay provides a case study challenging the received definition of Indigenous media in the shape of the Welsh-language channel, S4C. It critically reflects upon one of the earliest established European minority-language broadcasters, analysing how changing media ecologies and cultural practices have been negotiated by broadcasters, audiences, and programme makers alike. Rather than seeing cultural nationalism as necessarily fixing identity, the essay problematizes the interlocking rhetorics of race, language, nation and identity as they play out in Welsh-language media.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Global Indigenous Media |
Subtitle of host publication | Cultures, Poetics, and Politics |
Editors | Pamela Wilson, Michelle Stewart |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 232-249 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-8223-4291-5 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2008 |
Keywords
- S4C (sianel pedwar cymru)
- minority-language media
- cultural nationalism
- Welsh Television