La radio en Afrique de l'ouest, un « média carrefour » sous-estimé ? L'exemple du Burkina Faso

Fake News in the Sahel: “Afrancaux News,” French Counterterrorism, and the Logics of User-Generated Media

“…In the following decade, that rhetoric shifted, and African media were approached with much caution, being viewed as canons for Western cultural imperialism. In another about-face, the nascent literature on African mass media in the 1990s-which continued to be normative and Western in its approach, and centered on print media with little interest or knowledge of its audience-positively associated African media with the democratization process of the continent (Capitant 2008). Then with the advent of the internet, cybercafes that tethered early social media users in Africa were perceived as tools of political and economic empowerment in some cases, though few users used new media for participatory communication (Obijiofor 2011).…”

“…Then with the advent of the internet, cybercafes that tethered early social media users in Africa were perceived as tools of political and economic empowerment in some cases, though few users used new media for participatory communication (Obijiofor 2011). Next, on the eve of the third millennium, African mass media were predominantly studied for their capacity to facilitate conflict mediation (Capitant 2008). Finally, the explosion of social media brought back a rhetoric of media as facilitators of social change and participative democracy (Wasserman 2005).…”