7. Rethinking the Role of the Media in the Tunisian Uprising

Haugbølle, Rikke Hostrup

doi:10.1515/9780748691050-010

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“…Much of the scholarship on the relationship between Arab transitions and the media has focused on the role of social media, notably Facebook and Twitter (Hostrup Haugbølle 2013), with many writing enthusiastically about “Twitter” revolutions (Eltantawy and Wiest 2011). More sober analyses followed, and it became clear that social media were not necessarily a causal factor in the revolts (Wolfsfeld et al 2013), but simply one of the means that facilitated activists.…”

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How can we Agree on Anything in This Environment? Tunisian Media, Transition and Elite Compromises: A View From Parliament

Cavatorta

Mekki

2021

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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The literature on the role of the media during processes of transitions to democracy is divided over the positive or negative influence media outlets have. Both theoretically and empirically cases can be substantiated. In the case of the 2011 Arab revolts, however, there is a scholarly consensus that the media—traditional and social—have negatively affected the processes of transitions. While the criticism of the role of the media is empirically borne out, it does not explain how Tunisia was able to consolidate its democracy despite a polarizing media environment. Based on participant observation and interviews, the article argues that the inner workings of the Constituent Assembly and the role of individual deputies were crucial in overcoming a hostile atmosphere. This suggests that the role of political actors in negotiating the new rules of the game is more important than other factors shaping a transition.

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Section: Transitions To Democracy and The Mediamentioning

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How can we Agree on Anything in This Environment? Tunisian Media, Transition and Elite Compromises: A View From Parliament

Cavatorta

Mekki

2021

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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The Digital Double Bind

Zayani,

Khalil

2023

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The Middle East’s digital turn has renewed hopes of socioeconomic development and political change across the region. It has also engendered stark contradictions and accentuated existing tensions. The resulting disjunctures are ensnaring the region in a digital double bind: the same conditions that drive the immersion of the state, market, and public in the digital also inhibit change and perpetuate stasis. Grounded in local research and anchored in rich case studies, The Digital Double Bind critically engages with the question of technology and change beyond binary formulations and familiar trajectories of the network society. It offers a pathbreaking analysis of how the Global South negotiates its relation to the digital.

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Zayani,

Khalil

2023

The Digital Double Bind

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7. Rethinking the Role of the Media in the Tunisian Uprising

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How can we Agree on Anything in This Environment? Tunisian Media, Transition and Elite Compromises: A View From Parliament

How can we Agree on Anything in This Environment? Tunisian Media, Transition and Elite Compromises: A View From Parliament

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