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Digital society and the politics of youth in Guinea
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Digital society and the politics of youth in Guinea
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Clovis
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1976-
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Lauren Jane
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Daniel Thomas
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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This 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.
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Childhood Studies
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Supplementary File: Illustration 1
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Youth--Guinea
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Guinea--Politics and government
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by Clovis Bergere
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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