Adam Fish

My present research is on the values of innovation, social justice, entrepreneurialism, and craftsmanship as displayed in the practices and statements of digital video and television software and content producers in America. The internet, which I take as a rather unremarkable total social fact, is a key element of all my work. How does the internet and its classically liberal history impact labor, public participation, and activism? I am particularly curious about what options there will be for participation and access to audiences for diverse populations of media producers when television and internet hardware collide. In these research endeavors I have the honor of working at UCLA’s Part.Public.Part.Lab.

I am originally a fourth generation Pacific Northwesterner and worked for almost a decade as an archaeologist for the US federal government, universities, and tribal governments throughout the American West, as well as in India, Cuba, Mexico, New York City, and Iceland. I continue to work with Native Americans particularly on analysis of their representations online.

Since 2005 I worked as a documentary producer for the Emmy-winning cable and satellite television network Current TV. I produced 15 short documentaries on Iraqi refugees, divided cities in Belfast and Jerusalem, indigenous tourism in Native America, Viking longhouses in Iceland, religious fundamentalists in Kentucky, and revolutions in central Asia for broadcast on cable and satellite television. Here is my latest: Achulay: The Hunger Strike for the Himalaya.

I’m on twitter @mediacultures

for more about my work see my other blog: http://mediacultures.org

For all of my Savage Minds titles please see: http://savageminds.org/author/adam/