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Bergere, Clovis. Digital society and the politics of youth in Guinea. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3N58Q3S

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TitleDigital society and the politics of youth in Guinea
NameBergere, Clovis (author); Silver, Lauren Jane (chair); Coe, Cati (internal member); Cook, Daniel Thomas (internal member); Rutgers University; Camden Graduate School
Date Created2017
Other Date2017-05 (degree)
SubjectChildhood Studies, Youth--Guinea, Guinea--Politics and government, Social media--Guinea
Extent1 online resource (iii, 193 p.)
DescriptionThis dissertation explores the intersections of youth, politics and social in Guinea, West Africa. It is based on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted online, as well as participatory visual research with twenty Guinean youth aged between eighteen and twenty-nine years-old, living in two urban centers: Conakry, the country’s capital and Labé, a major urban center in the Fouta-Djallon region. In recent years having a page on social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter, has emerged as a key ‘marker’ of youth in Guinea. Emergent digital practices such as correcting errors made in French by older politicians on Twitter, hashtag campaigns such as #GuinéeVote or #TaxeDeSuivisme for instance or the introduction of a new Internet Tax point to the emergence of new forms of governmentality and relations of power in Guinea, a largely gerontocratic society. Building on Chatterjee’s distinction between civil and political society, I argue that a new domain of political which I term ‘digital society’ is emerging in Guinea. I also propose the phrase ‘conscious bits’ as a heuristic devise to locate digital society within the current political moment in Guinea, and reflect some of the more affective, social technical and lived dimensions of digital society in Guinea.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Noteby Clovis Bergere
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3N58Q3S
Languageeng
CollectionCamden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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