Révolution tunisienne et Internet : le rôle des médias sociaux

Following the popular protest movement that led to the fall of the regime of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, the media and ICT experts stressed the revolutionary role of the Internet in Tunisia, particularly of the “social networks”. While we attempt to analyze how the use of Internet may have been a catal...

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Main Author: Romain Lecomte
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: CNRS Éditions 2011-12-01
Series:L’Année du Maghreb
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/1288
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description Following the popular protest movement that led to the fall of the regime of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, the media and ICT experts stressed the revolutionary role of the Internet in Tunisia, particularly of the “social networks”. While we attempt to analyze how the use of Internet may have been a catalyst specifically for the protest movement born in Sidi Bouzid, our article warns against certain popular analyzes promoting the myth of the “e-revolution” and social networks as the trigger, while at the same time ignoring where and how the revolution was born and led for the most part. Rather, our study shows why the role of “social networks” increased gradually to become really significant in the last days before the departure of Ben Ali.
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Révolution tunisienne et Internet : le rôle des médias sociaux
L’Année du Maghreb
Tunisia
Revolution
Internet
social networks
cyberactivism
title Révolution tunisienne et Internet : le rôle des médias sociaux
title_full Révolution tunisienne et Internet : le rôle des médias sociaux
title_fullStr Révolution tunisienne et Internet : le rôle des médias sociaux
title_full_unstemmed Révolution tunisienne et Internet : le rôle des médias sociaux
title_short Révolution tunisienne et Internet : le rôle des médias sociaux
title_sort revolution tunisienne et internet le role des medias sociaux
topic Tunisia
Revolution
Internet
social networks
cyberactivism
url https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/1288
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