[ Usages et logiques d’usage des réseaux sociaux dans la ville de Bobo-Dioulasso: Le pluralisme de l’expression au Burkina Faso ]
Volume 30, Issue 1, July 2020, Pages 65–74
Jacques Philippe Nacoulma1
1 Université Nazi Boni, Burkina Faso
Original language: French
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Bobo-Dioulasso city in Burkina Faso was subject to research conducted on the effects and uses of information and communication digitization in a context of personal, cultural and social change where Internet users freely express their opinions on websites commonly known as social networks. Therefore, what are the effects and logics behind the use of social networks? Is not digitization of information and communication a virtual transposition of actual daily life? Is this freedom of expression part of e-democracy in Burkina Faso? This research which lasted three (3) months raises the issue of users’ styles and their logic behind the use of social networks. The research methodology is based on a rational choice of thirteen social actors. Tools used for data collection include semi-structured interview guide and participant observation. Based on the results obtained, it appears that the effects and uses of information and communication digitization update the anthropological theory of « homo communicators ». It also appears that the uses and logic of the use of social networks show a pluralism of the global-local (glocal) expression. Lastly, the pluralism of the « glocal » expression does not stem from e-democracy but rather from the technical / technological, individual and collective logic.
Author Keywords: Logic of use, social networks, pluralism of expression, global-local, Burkina.
Volume 30, Issue 1, July 2020, Pages 65–74
Jacques Philippe Nacoulma1
1 Université Nazi Boni, Burkina Faso
Original language: French
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Bobo-Dioulasso city in Burkina Faso was subject to research conducted on the effects and uses of information and communication digitization in a context of personal, cultural and social change where Internet users freely express their opinions on websites commonly known as social networks. Therefore, what are the effects and logics behind the use of social networks? Is not digitization of information and communication a virtual transposition of actual daily life? Is this freedom of expression part of e-democracy in Burkina Faso? This research which lasted three (3) months raises the issue of users’ styles and their logic behind the use of social networks. The research methodology is based on a rational choice of thirteen social actors. Tools used for data collection include semi-structured interview guide and participant observation. Based on the results obtained, it appears that the effects and uses of information and communication digitization update the anthropological theory of « homo communicators ». It also appears that the uses and logic of the use of social networks show a pluralism of the global-local (glocal) expression. Lastly, the pluralism of the « glocal » expression does not stem from e-democracy but rather from the technical / technological, individual and collective logic.
Author Keywords: Logic of use, social networks, pluralism of expression, global-local, Burkina.
Abstract: (french)
La ville de Bobo-Dioulasso au Burkina Faso a fait l’objet d’une recherche sur les effets et usages de la numérisation de l’information et de la communication dans un contexte de changement personnel, culturel et social où des internautes expriment librement leurs opinions sur des sites Web communément appelés réseaux sociaux. A cette fin, quels sont les effets et logiques d’usage des réseaux sociaux ? La numérisation de l’information et de la communication n’est-elle pas une transposition virtuelle de la réalité concrète de la vie au quotidien ? Cette liberté d’expression relève-t-elle finalement de la cyberdémocratie au Burkina Faso ? Cette recherche qui a durée trois (3) mois pose le problème des figures de l’usager et des logiques d’usage des réseaux sociaux. La méthodologie de recherche repose sur un choix raisonné de treize acteurs sociaux. Les outils utilisés pour la collecte des données sont le guide d’entretien semi-directif et l’observation participante. Des résultats obtenus, il ressort que les effets et usages de la numérisation de l’information et de la communication actualisent la théorie anthropologique de l’ « homo communicans ». Il apparaît également que les usages et logiques de l’usage des réseaux sociaux traduisent un pluralisme de l’expression global-local (glocal). Pour finir, le pluralisme de l’expression glocal ne relève pas de la cyberdémocratie mais plutôt des logiques technique/technologique, individuelle et collective.
Author Keywords: Logiques d’usage, réseaux sociaux, pluralisme de l’expression, global-local, Burkina.
How to Cite this Article
Jacques Philippe Nacoulma, “Uses and logic of uses of social networks in Bobo-Dioulasso: The pluralism of expression in Burkina Faso,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 65–74, July 2020.
