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Lost in Narration: Protests, New Media and the Absent Storyteller

The question seems to be how visual representations of protests and similar ideological propositions today shape the identity of a spectator in terms of his epistemological relation to the visual. The answer I am proposing is not focused only on the content of what is shown via the image, but also on the perception (and the various strategies of understanding through seeing) of the one that looks and the narrative it appropriates. Therefore, my analysis in concerned with the comparison of old and new documentary practices. How can we take advantage culturally and politically in the use of new media technologies? I claim that the new (digital) media strategies of visualizing and narrating protests and violence can help in abandoning the idea of unidirectional dissemination of information from the "producers" to their receivers in favor of "nomadic hierarchy" by which the information sphere is always intersubjective (through internet- decentralized participation).

narration, film, early film, attraction, gaze

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