The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring PDF

Peter Snowdon ist Zeithistoriker und Journalist. Ausgebildet am St. Dunstan's College, der Durham University und der London School of Economics, hat er mit Anthony Seldon an einer Reihe von Büchern zusammengearbeitet, darunter die autorisierte Biographie von John Major, Major: A Political Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997), Blair (Simon & Schuster, 2004) und Blair Unbound (Simon & Schuster, 2007).[1] Er hat Artikel über die Konservative Partei in mehreren wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften geschrieben, darunter The Political Quarterly und Parliamentary Affairs. Er hat auch zu Parliamentary Monitor, Parliamentary Brief und Newsweek beigetragen. Er ist gelegentlich Kolumnist für die Yorkshire Post und trat als Kommentator im Fernsehen und Radio im Vereinigten Königreich und im Ausland auf. Er arbeitet derzeit für politische Programme der BBC, nachdem er zuvor bei London Weekend Television gearbeitet hatte.

The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring pdf von Peter Snowdon

The wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 were most vividly transmitted throughout the world not by television or even social media, but in short videos produced by the participants themselves and circulated anonymously on the internet.
In The People Are Not an Image, Snowdon explores this radical shift in revolutionary self-representation, showing that the political consequences of these videos cannot be located without reference to their aesthetic form. Looking at videos from Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Libya, and Egypt, Snowdon attends closely to the circumstances of both their production and circulation, drawing on a wide range of historical and theoretical material, to discover what they can tell us about the potential for revolution in our time and the possibilities of video as a genuinely decentralised and vernacular medium.