Networks, Society, and Polis: Epistemological Approaches on Mediatization

When the eyes do not blink nor stop: from the operation-image to the rise to the flow 201 Defense. The videos and photographs produced by the non-me- dia institution, and made available via Twitter 7 , were brought to the canonical media system when a child’s rescue was followed minute by minute (Figure 1). Figure 01 – Image of White Helmet removing a child from the wreckage. Source: White Helmets Twitter Post. In this seemingly amateur production, we can observe mediatization logics marked by media logics, which imply new operations. This is what we understand, clearly, by operations: a) White Helmets chose to record the events themselves, trying to manage the meaning of what was published. b) a volunteer is designated to be not the rescue agent, but the image capture agent. To this “integrated professional” is given the right not to intervene in the scene, but to register it, having clear domains of framing and camera movements. c) The images were made for Twitter, therefore, for their circulation. It was not a record of the performance of the civil defense, but of the image produc- tion of the massacre, which was consolidated in the articulation with other previous images. d) When made available on the web, 7 https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef. White Helmets mobilization page.