Resumo

MENDEZ-GOMEZ, Delmar Ulises. Audio-visual Strategies of Political Communication in the Jungle Region of Chiapas: The Experience of the Tseltal Activists Mariano Estrada and Arturo Pérez. LiminaR [online]. 2018, vol.16, n.1, pp.56-72. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v16i1.564.

In Mexico, the training of local media professionals who refer to themselves as “grassroots communicators,” and who work and develop their practices closely with their communities of origin, has been an important phenomenon in the past few decades. By exercising their right to express themselves, communicate, and obtain information, these grassroots communicators have enabled invisible and undervalued perspectives and voices to reach a broader audience. In this article, I analyze the audio-visual work of two Tseltal community media producers, Mariano Estrada and Arturo Pérez, who share some of their professional experience and insights into the political dimension of “the camera,” as well as their communication strategies and the work they have developed within Jungle Region communities.

Palavras-chave : social media; audiovisual media; self-representation; documentary.