Digitalization of Society and Socio-political Issues 1

15The Digitalization of Society and a New Form of Connected Sociability in Tunisia

This chapter aims to identify the links between digital culture, digital social networks (DSNs) and youth culture in the age of the digitalization of society. The construction of the figure of information and communication technology (ICT) users has been extensively discussed in information and communication sciences (ICS). Through ICS research, based on a double theoretical and empirical study focused on Mediterranean countries, including Tunisia, we have drawn up a panorama of the social uses of social web tools, which, according to Millerand, Proulx and Rueff (2010), refers to the emergence of new digital devices that are inseparable from the evolution of the Internet. This notion of social web (known as Web 2.0) has been addressed by ICS research (Pirolli and Cretin-Pirolli 2011).

In addition, the first objective of our study is to work on the construction and deconstruction of the notion of social web by researching the contemporary works that deal with the subject matter. We will see what lessons emerge from Mediterranean research on this social web in an increasingly digital society. Our second objective is to question the concept of digital humanities and see whether the discourse around this notion finds an echo in the Tunisian context.

Consequently, our issue addresses the new practices of DSNs in the Mediterranean. It focuses on the following questions: what are the communication issues ...