A civil újságírás dokumentumfilmes archeológiája
Archaeology of Citizen Journalism in Documentary

Summary/Abstract: Citizen journalism is a new way of reporting, analyzing and disseminating news in which ordinary people take on journalistic roles, representing an alternative to the mainstream, institutional media. The paper focuses on the antecedents of citizen video journalism using a media archeology approach to explore common technocultural and ideological bonds with the media of film, television, and electronic video. The author compares the theory and practice of Dziga Vertov's “kino-eye” with the credibility conditions of citizen video journalism, and then examines the observer and participant methods of cinéma vérité and direct cinema with the voyeurist and leaked videos of contemporary whistleblowers. Then, Gerencsér draws a parallel between the live television coverage of the 1989 Romanian revolution with guerrilla practices called “tactical media” following the theory of Michel de Certeau, and looks for connections between the documentation of the beating of Rodney King in 1991 and the citizen sousveillance of police brutality against George Floyd in 2020. According to the conclusion, citizen video journalism is not only the remediation of the technical innovations and social practices of previous media, but also shares a discourse that frames the extent to which a medium in itself can generate political changes.

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