dc.contributor.author | Mwende Maweu, Jacinta | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-28T07:06:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-06-28T07:06:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | index l comunicación | nº 3(2) | 2013 | Pages 37-52 | ISSN: 2174-1859 | es |
dc.identifier.issn | 2174-1859 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10115/15308 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines if the increased political discussions on social
media especially Twitter and Facebook before and after the March 4th, 2013
general elections in Kenya translated to a more robust alternative public sphere
that broke the hegemony of the traditional media as agenda setters or an alternative
space for the audience to vent out their frustrations and grievances about the election.
In the last most contentious elections in 2007, in Kenya, both new and old
media were blamed for fueling ethnic hate speech which culminated into the
2007/ 2008 post election violence. It is argued in this text that although voting
patterns in the March 2013 elections were clearly along ethnic lines just like in
2007, there was no physical post election violence like was the case in 2008. What
was clearly evident there was ethnic hate speech before and after the general elections
on social media networks. We therefore observe that unlike in 2008 where
ethnic violence was fought out in the streets, in the 2013 general elections, the
ethnic war was networked. The article uses qualitative content analysis of some of
the messages sent on Twitter and Facebook to argue that social media platforms
only acted as alternative spaces for Kenyans to fight out their ethnic political wars
and not alternative public spheres for constructive political deliberation. So it
concludes by observing that social media networks in the 2013 general elections in
Kenya acted as ‘opium of the masses’ only serving the function of keeping Kenya
quiet and peaceful to prevent a repeat of the 2008 post election violence, but not
alternative public spheres to facilitate constructive political deliberation. | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos | es |
dc.rights | Atribución 4.0 Internacional | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Ethnicity | es |
dc.subject | Social Media | es |
dc.subject | Elections | es |
dc.subject | Kenya | es |
dc.subject | Hate Speech | es |
dc.subject | Política | es |
dc.title | The ethnic hate speech was networked: what political discussions on social media reveal about the 2013 general elections in Kenya | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.subject.unesco | 59 Ciencia Política | es |
dc.subject.unesco | 6301.04 Relaciones Interétnicas | es |