2021
DOI: 10.3917/polaf.161.0071
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Le politique (en ligne) par le bas en Afrique subsaharienne

Abstract: Cet article propose un panorama des travaux scientifiques portant sur l’engagement et l’appartenance politiques dans « l’Afrique numérique », une formule consacrée désignant les mondes médiatisés numériquement des habitants de l’Afrique subsaharienne et des populations de la diaspora. Le numérique est de plus en plus un lieu de l’expression publique et de la capacité citoyenne d’agir en Afrique subsaharienne. Trois hypothèses sous-tendent une grande partie de ce corpus de recherche. 1) La citoyenneté est appré… Show more

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“…Thereby, the digital is increasingly becoming a site of public expression and civic agency, but also of cheap propaganda and the spread of fake news in populist social networks, even in Sub-Saharan Africa (Kohnert, 2022). Thereby, citizenship is often 'constructed', and the politics of belonging used as an exploited flexible category, malleable, sometimes even negotiable, and to be played with, but mostly used to exclude 'foreigners' (Pype, 2021;Kohnert, 2009).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Thereby, the digital is increasingly becoming a site of public expression and civic agency, but also of cheap propaganda and the spread of fake news in populist social networks, even in Sub-Saharan Africa (Kohnert, 2022). Thereby, citizenship is often 'constructed', and the politics of belonging used as an exploited flexible category, malleable, sometimes even negotiable, and to be played with, but mostly used to exclude 'foreigners' (Pype, 2021;Kohnert, 2009).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It had been used already systematically by colonial powers and socialist African regimes alike already before the invention of the internet. In fact, the mechanisms of the shadow state rely on lack of transparency and surveillance by concealed networks of states and businesses (Pype, 2021). Moreover, at least ten African government used the notorious Israeli Pegasus spyware developed by the Israeli surveillance technology company, NSO Group, which is a weapon of choice for repressive governments according to the head of Amnesty International, Agnès Callamard (Kodjani, 2021); Dadoo, 2021).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%