Indigenous Lecture with Salazar

I attended the Thursday morning lecture on Ethnic Citizenship and Social Media in an age of shifting identities. The title of the lecture was the my main interest in this particular lecture, however I was highly disappointed in the overall presentation of the lecture. For starters outside of the room in which the lecture was held massive construction was taking place making it difficult to hear the speaker. After the construction quieted I was able to listen to the rest of the lecture. I assumed that Juan F. Salazar would be lecturing on actual media occurrences in indigenous countries. This was hardly the case. Salazar spent most of the time giving facts about the indigenous people of Chile. Salazar who is an anthropologist made a documentary style video that involved indigenous people living in Chile. He did not speak about the film revealing its findings or even why he made it. The main point Salazar repeated was many who had viewed the video thought it was shot by the indigenous people. At the end of Salazar's lecture someone asked what exactly his claim was and Salazar stated, 'I do not really have a claim.' The lecture was alright but I wish he had given more information on how media was changing the indigenous people or how they were changing the media.