ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that Dave Delozier calls upon the tools of video technology and his personal editorial vision in a 'social role' as a journalist as he reports about how the war veterans construct their social reality. It considers three topics related to the solo videojournalist mode of expression: how photojournalists' work as recorders of visual truth has been understood by culture and explored by scholars; how journalism negotiates the tension between notions of objectivity and more subjective emotional content; and recent research on how journalism contributes to the emotional sphere. The chapter describes the 'social moments' as he or she negotiates mobile digital technologies for a journalistic storytelling purpose. Delozier structures his video chronologically around the action of the funeral, using a sequential technique for heightened realism. Delozier functions as a social as well as a visual interpreter, by capturing and portraying emotion, gestures, vocabulary, personal values, sound, posture, dress codes, pace of activity, and a sense of presence.
