ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the mediated vulnerability of bodies in danger of being killed by snipers from places of current and past violent conflicts. It explores both the professional and the user-generated audiovisual clips that have been posted on YouTube and which bear witness to the vulnerability of the citizens of this war-torn area of the recent past. The chapter focuses on both the cases of digital media and easy access to simple mobile recording devices and uploading facilities, and it has the qualitative difference in use of these technologies in the two cases. The analysis of Neda's assemblage capacities considers the primarily media witnessing at places of past or contemporary tensions and conflicts. To understand the importance of 'media witnessing', a term canonised by Frosh and Pinchevski, first consider the characteristics of the act of witnessing and, from there, consider how new media might alter some of the traditional assumptions about testimony.
