Australia

This thesis examines the use of video technology as an alternative communication medium within a dialogic framework. It explores multiple dialogic encounters and different meanings of dialogue. It analyses dialogues within and around video technology and dialogues with contemporary events in Mexican history. I argue that these dialogic encounters are contributing to an ongoing process of transformation in Mexican consciousness. The thesis’s theoretical framework draws on Mikhail Bakht in’s theory of dialogism and employs a dialogic method that emphasise s diversity. In the thesis, I conduct an in-depth analysis of multiple series of dialogues between key people, events, and discourses. These dialogues are complex. I explore their complexities and the varied relationships that emerge from them, including my own. As researcher and writer, I am a part of the dialogues I explore in the thesis.