The UCLA Center for EthnoCommunications was founded in 1996 as a national institution to create innovative linkages between communities and universities to document, preserve and highlight unique ethnic cultures and experiences through the use of emerging media and communications technologies.
The Center for EthnoCommunications is comprised of three components:
Center for EthnoCommunications, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 3229 Campbell Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095
E-mail: ethno@aasc.ucla.edu Phone: 310-206-8889 Fax: 310-206-9844
EthnoCommunications is “living media”—the self-documentation and preservation of our histories and cultures in real time and virtual space.
- Robert Nakamura, Director and Professor - EthnoCommunications
Develop innovative programs and strategies for diverse communities and cultures to reclaim and make known their histories, contributions and experiences through the study, analysis and vigorous use of developing communications technology.
Forward the concept of combining university learning with community service. That theory and practice can be integrated in a meaningful way through interaction and collaborative projects with peoples and institutions outside the university campus.
Increase awareness of the need for ethnic communities to develop strategies for self-documentation and preservation of their own histories and cultures and in the process reclaim their collective past, redefine their collective present and revision their collective future.