YouTube and the Syrian revolution
YouTube and the Syrian revolution

Summary/Abstract: Since March 2011 the revolt in Syria has engendered a considerable and heterogeneous mass of videos made by demonstrators, activists and fighters and posted on the Internet. During the peaceful manifestations between 2011 and 2013 the videos played a crucial role in the narrative of the revolt but also in the emergence of new modes of protesting focused on the work of the image. The author questions the effects of amateur video on the perception of the protest as well as on protest activities themselves in an ultra-repressive context. She pays particular attention to the relationship between the act of filming and the act of protesting, both linked by bodies, words and emotions. Thus, it is an issue of exploring the different visual dimensions of the revolt in Syria, in accordance to the evolution of the movement and the spaces it occupied, to understand better how the protest experience is articulated and put into images.

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