ABSTRACT

This last of three chapters for the analysis of digital narratives of undocumented youth on YouTube explores the use of written language as well as static images and props as a significant marker of space in the videos. The use of captions, in particular, illustrates new filmmaking techniques that the digital video adapts to and makes its own in the creation of meaning. Photos add another visual level that reestablishes the connection of the digital testimonio to its offline context: actions of protest and photo evidence of the immigration background upon which undocumented youth base their stories.