Social media in democratic transitions and consolidations: what can we learn from the case of Tunisia?

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The aim of this paper is to analyse the use of social media in the stages of uprising, democratic transition and democratic consolidation using the case study of Tunisia. While the impact of social media in uprisings has been widely documented in past research about the MENA region, Tunisia provides new evidence to the use of Internet in the processes of democratisation. Consequently, this research focuses in detail on the benefits but also the pitfalls of social media in transitions and consolidations. Data collection was based on interviews with Tunisian social media activists. The analysis is valuable to social media practitioners and researchers alike

An Investigation of the Relationship between certain Socio-Political Implications and the issue of Prior Restraint of the Press during the Twentieth Century

The thesis investigates and analyzes this relationship and attempts to discern the nature of the interaction between its components. The study will focus primarily upon the Twentieth Century to illustrate how the socio-political environment constitutes an influence on the press. This influence can be either positive or negative, in which case it can advance or inhibit the activities of the press respectively. In the latter case, it simply means observing the possibility of the socio-political environment constituting a prior restraint on the press