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Socio-Informatics
Contents
Editorial
Thematic Focus: Socio-Informatics
Introduction to the Thematic Focus âSocio-Informaticsâ / Claudia MĂŒller
Digitalisation in Small German Metal-Working Companies. Appropriation of Technology in a âTraditionalâ Industrial Domain / Bernhard Nett, Jennifer Bönsch
Travelling by Taxi Brousse in Madagascar: An Investigation into Practices of Overland Transportation / Volker Wulf, Kaoru Misaki, Dave Randall, and Markus Rohde
Mobile and Interactive Media in the Store? Design Case Study on Bluetooth Beacon Concepts for Food Retail / Christian Reuter, Inken Leopold
Facebook and the Mass Media in Tunisia / Konstantin Aal, Marén Schorch, Esma Ben Hadj Elkilani, Volker Wulf
Book Review Symposium Charles Goodwin
Charles Goodwinâs Co-Operative Action: The Idea and the Argument / Erhard SchĂŒttpelz, Christian Meyer
Multi-Modal Interaction and Tool-Making: Goodwinâs Intuition / Christian Meyer, Erhard SchĂŒttpelz
Co-Operation is a Feature of Sociality, not an Attribute of People : âWe inhabit each otherâs actions.â (Goodwin, cover) / Jutta Wiesemann, Klaus Amann
The Making of the World in Co-Operative Action. From Sentence Construction to Cultural Evolution / JĂŒrgen Streeck
On Goodwin and his Co-Operative Action / Jörg R. Bergman
Facebook and the mass media in Tunisia
Facebook played a considerable role during the political uprisings of the so called âArab Springâ in 2011. Together with Al-Jazeera, it was one of the few reliable sources of information for protesters at that time. In this paper, we explore the media landscape in Tunisia two years after the uprising. We conducted a qualitative investigation (participant observation and interviewing) with young Tunisians. The paper describes how they use Facebook (FB), newspapers, and TV for gaining information and for exchange. By that time, FB was their primary medium for access to political information. They prefer the variety and diversity of user-generated content, they select information, discuss issues among their friends inside FB and with that, co-create meaning and trust. It seems that both traditional censorship in the national mass media and the revolutionary experience have created a unique media landscape among young Tunisians. Facebook still plays a leading role for many in that landscape, but there remains a âdigital divideâ