Indigenous media refers to diverse audiovisual production activities involving indigenous people. Indigenous people's experience of media technologies date to their earliest contacts with European explorers and scientists. Since the 1970s a growing number of indigenous communities have adopted recording and broadcast technologies for their own purposes. Throughout the closing decades of the twentieth century, indigenous media activity evolved to engage national and international audiences. The emergence of computer networks and digital media has enabled further innovations. Indigenous media productions reveal distinctive cultural imperatives and ways of seeing. Anthropologists' attention to indigenous media has contributed to new conceptualizations of culture and cultural process.