Nouvelles revendications féministes et médias numériques. Contournement des interdits sociaux et religieux en Tunisie et Maroc
New Feminist Claims and Digital Media: Circumvention of Social and Religious Prohibitions in Tunisia and Morocco
Author(s): Hassan ATIFI, Zeineb TOUATISubject(s): Anthropology, Gender Studies, Media studies, Political Philosophy, Civil Society, Communication studies, Islam studies, Comparative Studies of Religion, Politics and communication, Politics and religion, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, History of Education, Nationalism Studies, Sociology of Culture, Migration Studies, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Globalization, Sociology of Religion
Published by: ESSACHESS
Keywords: women; religion; feminist struggle; social media;
Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the question of Tunisian and Moroccan womenpresence on social networks. An analysis of how they grab these digital tools tomake their new right claims visible. Our methodology and our questions ariseessentially from the ethnography of electronic communication and semiopragmatics. Our objective here is to observe and describe devices, uses and actorsinvolved in these new online mobilization and activism media for women benefit inTunisia and Morocco. Two web corpuses are analyzed. The first corpus comes froma regular watch on Facebook accounts of associations, activists and ordinary netusers in Tunisia. The second one is made up of 12 episodes of “Marokkiates” webseries broadcast on Facebook and Youtube in 2017-2018. These corpuses have led toa contrastive study of new digital forms of mobilization, circumvention of social orreligious prohibitions, activism for women new rights detailing as well the currentfeminism uses in the two north Africa countries.
Journal: ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies
- Issue Year: 13/2020
- Issue No: 25 (1)
- Page Range: 179-208
- Page Count: 29
- Language: French