• Steyerl talks about how the “unbroken belief” of the documentary form is challenged. What does Steyerl mean by this? Certain movies and films are based on a true story.  How does truth inform the fiction? How might fiction inform the truth?

Originally, documentary form can only be the real images and videos, but the fact is that the real images still can convey very subjective feelings. Just as Steyerl said, “documentary forms convey, regulate, and administrate huge emotional potentials that they both keep in check and unleash explosively. They bring distant events close enough to get under our skin, and alienate what is closest to us. They heighten a general sense of fear that increasingly being used as a political instrument. “

The writer of the fiction always catch some specific point from a real story, and to present the truth in his/her way and to express the feeling and the point he/she wants to let people know from his/her perspective. So fiction can partly represent the truth and let people know part of the truth, but fictions are always created by humans, so  they always represent the purpose of the creators.

• What is the significance of the authenticity and representation of the truth in the media that you consume on a daily basis? What is the role of a live broadcast?

The authenticity and representation of the truth in the media let people know what is happening or what is the trend in the society. Different representations have different usages.

For the live broadcast, it has a variety of meanings. If it’s a news live broadcast, it enables people to know what is happening in the city, in the country, and in the world; if it’s a shopping live broadcast, it is a platform to let people shop online. Anyway, a live broadcast is always in a true scene, but it always express and convey what the broadcaster wants people to see, so the purpose is always affected by people.