The Image of Truth: Truth-Practices and Portable Technology in Contemporary Italian Video-Journalism
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2012

In this dissertation I examine the forms and possibilities of truth-speaking in contemporary Italian news and media industry. I ask the following questions: 1) What does an Italian contemporary journalist need to do in order to be acknowledged as a truth-teller? 2) How does technological innovation, and in particular portable video-technology, influence self-reflexivity? 3) What kind of relation to the political present does truth-telling enable? I assume Italy's news and media industry as a "ca