Internet come spazio di contestazione e di opposizione nella Tunisia di Ben Ali. Informare e mobilitare a Sfax

CARBONI, MICHELE

;Crisponi MP;SISTU, GIOVANNI

2015-01-01

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Abstract

Starting with an analysis of the geographical dimension of social movements and of the Internet as a space of information and contestation in Pre-Revolutionary Tunisia, this research analyses the story of a group of Tunisians who launched and managed the SfaxOnline website. The website brought to light the effects of local administration mismanagement as well as central Government failures. The group’s work was not limited to cyber activism but promoted several concrete actions that mobilized the population and hampered speculative strategies by local authorities, becoming an emblematic example of a social movement born at the local level but able to play a role at the national level.