Classic media are very often criticized for one-sided, superficial, polarizing and clichéd reporting on migration issues. Digital space offers migrants and refugees the opportunity to speak for themselves, tell individual stories and create public counter-discourses. Nowadays, we can observe different grassroots initiatives pursuing precisely this goal. They include professional or semi-professional media projects as well as amateur initiatives. Yet the questions remain: Who can speak for whom? What are the blind spots of these bottom-up narratives? Which (new) stereotypes are being constructed and what is the (political) aim behind it?
Let’s have a closer look at three grassroots digital media projects that give voice to Venezuelan migrants in Peru and aim to address a broader audience. The object of comparison here are the short interviews that are published on YouTube in all three projects, although two of them also offer other formats.
Tags: Interviews
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