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Facebook and the Mass Media in Tunisia

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dc.creatorAal, Konstantin
dc.creatorSchorch, Marén
dc.creatorElkilani, Esma Ben Hadj
dc.creatorWulf, Volker
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-09T06:23:51Z
dc.date.available2021-07-09T06:23:51Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractFacebook 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’.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/8269
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16220
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/17069
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSFB 1187 'Medien der Kooperation' an der Universität Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2567-9104
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMedia in Action. Interdisciplinary Journal on Cooperative Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectFacebooken
dc.subjectMass media in Tunisiaen
dc.subjectFacebookde
dc.subjectMassenmedien in Tunesiende
dc.subject.ddcddc:302.23
dc.titleFacebook and the Mass Media in Tunisiaen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-07-12T20:30:41
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/8269
local.source.epage168
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleSocio-Informatics
local.source.spage135

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