Citation link: http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/8269
Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat
Aal_et_al_Facebook.pdf574.92 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
View/Open
Dokument Type: Article
metadata.dc.title: Facebook and the mass media in Tunisia
Authors: Aal, Konstantin 
Schorch, Marén 
Elkilani, Esma Ben Hadj 
Wulf, Volker 
Institute: DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 1187 "Medien der Kooperation" 
Free keywords: Facebook, Mass media in Tunisia
Dewey Decimal Classification: 302.23 Medien (Kommunikationsmittel), Medienwissenschaft
GHBS-Clases: KNZZ
Issue Date: 2018
Publish Date: 2021
Journal: Media in action : interdisciplinary journal on cooperative media 
Source: Media in action : interdisciplinary journal on cooperative media ; 2018,1: Socio-informatics. – ISSN 2567-9082, S. 135 – 168.
Abstract: 
Facebook played a considerable role during the political uprisings of the so called ‘Arab Spring’ in 2011. Together with Al-Jazeera, it was one of the few reliable sources of information for protesters at that time. In this paper, we explore the media landscape in Tunisia two years after the uprising. We conducted a qualitative investigation (participant observation and interviewing) with young Tunisians. The paper describes how they use Facebook (FB), newspapers, and TV for gaining information and for exchange. By that time, FB was their primary medium for access to political information. They prefer the variety and diversity of user-generated content, they select information, discuss issues among their friends inside FB and with that, co-create meaning and trust. It seems that both traditional censorship in the national mass media and the revolutionary experience have created a unique media landscape among young Tunisians. Facebook still plays a leading role for many in that landscape, but there remains a ‘digital divide’.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/8269
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:467-18313
URI: https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/1831
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Appears in Collections:Publikationen aus der Universität Siegen

This item is protected by original copyright

Show full item record

Page view(s)

433
checked on Dec 24, 2024

Download(s)

120
checked on Dec 24, 2024

Google ScholarTM

Check

Altmetric


This item is licensed under a Creative Commons License Creative Commons