Narrating the City: Videoludic Experience and Appropriation of the Urban Cyclist on YouTube

Abstract

Since the implementation of the first bike paths in Bogotá, Colombia, at the beginning of the 2000s, the bicycle progressively became a mobility alternative to mass transportation. Although road corridors are often a scene of conflict and chaos, they are also places of expression that show the ways of life in the city right where displacements take place. This reflection article seeks to review some videographic expressions that narrate the city from the bicycle tours that are published on YouTube. These creations build values and representations of the city from creativity, play and playfulness; and, in turn, demonstrate narrative and affective appropriations of urban space