The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostering ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property. Mechanical multiples of the same text created a public–a reading public. (McLuhan, 1967/1996, p. 122, 123)
My name is Lisa Girbav and I come from a mixed Tsimshian heritage. My mother is Jennifer Sampson and my father is Kevin Girbav. On my mother’s side, I am Tsimshian from the community of Lax Kw’alaams. My maternal grandparents are Reginald Sampson and Pauline Sampson (nee Gosnell). On my father’s side, my paternal grandfather Leonard Girbav is of Romanian descent, and my paternal grandmother Eleanor Girbav (nee Peterson) is of Norwegian descent. I grew up in Lax Kxeen/Prince Rupert, which resides in the Tsimshian Territory. I am an urban Tsimshian, currently living on the Musqueam territory in Vancouver while I study at UBC.
Province of British Columbia. (n.d.). First Nations Peoples of British Columbia [Online image]. Retrieved from BC Ministry of Education, https://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/abed/map.htm
I understand media through the lens of traditional media, predominantly radio and television, with the addition of social media and some web based journalism. I work in radio broadcasting and communications, and have worked with CiTR, Roundhouse Radio, CFNR Network and Bell Media.
I acknowledge that I am an uninvited guest on the traditional and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
This is a blog for the UBC course FNIS 401F Indigenous New Media and Digital Story Telling. The blogs on this website are for the purpose of the course requirements to explore concepts of new media theory.
This opportunity [to engage with and create content in the World Wide Web] was available to anybody who had access to a computer, a network link, and the desire to learn HTML coding. It didn’t include everybody, not by a long shot, but it took in far more people than had access to a television broadcast studio or a printing press. (Lewis & Fragnito, 2005, Terra Nullius section, para 3.)
References:
Lewis, J. & Fragnito, S. T. (2005). Aboriginal territories in cyber space. Cultural Survival, 29.2. Retrieved from https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/canada/aboriginal-territories-cyberspace
McLuhan, M., Fiore, Q., & Agel, J. (1996). The medium is the massage: An inventory of effects. London: Penguin. (Original work published 1967)
Province of British Columbia. (n.d.). [First Nations Peoples of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/abed/map.htm