Imágenes, participación ciudadana y cambio político: sobre "Videogramas de una revolución" (Harun Farocki y Andrej Ujica, 1992)

• Autores: David Montero Sánchez, José Manuel Moreno-Domínguez
• Localización: Avanca / Cinema 2012 / Cine Clube de Avanca (dir.), 2012, ISBN 978-989-96858-2-6, págs. 935-942
• Idioma: varios idiomas
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• Resumen

  • Twenty years after the popular revolt that overturned Nicolae Ceauçescu’s socialist regime, the well-knownimages of political change in Romania briefly returned to TV screens around the world. These pictures possessa high communicative value though only in relation to a social, political and cultural context generally ignoredby historicist perspectives, which have tended to focus on their importance as documents rather than on theirdiscursive significance. Departing from a socio-semiotic analysis of Harun Farocki and Andrej Ujica’s Videograms ofa revolution (1992) this paper proposes to study how different audiovisual discourses circulated in Romania duringthe five days of the revolt relate dialogically to each other, analysing connections and counterpoints. In this briefperiod of time, instability and power vacuum allowed the emergence of media codes generated by diffuse citizendemands, which ended up acting as a legitimising force in the new system. Precisely, the role played by televisionas the engine of popular action during the Romanian revolution sparked a debate (now hardly recognisable dueto the profound transformations underwent by the media landscape over the last two decades) on communitymedia and its potential. This paper aims to revitalise such debate with a view to analyse how new information andcommunication technologies have administered the legacy of the Romanian rebels, studying recent examples anddiscussing to what extent current practices associated to citizen journalism distort the concept into a palatableexercise sponsored by media corporations.