 The Impact of Social and Digital Medias on Senegalese SocietyOusmane Sall Studies in Media and Communication, 2017, vol. 5, issue 2, 1-7 Abstract: West African countries especially Senegal, have a very rich history of written and oral communication based on their culture and traditions. Today, Senegal is inescapable about the adoption and use of new technologies in Africa. Senegal experienced a boom of cell phones users over the past 5 years in 2012 for example, we noticed ¡°88% mobile subscriptions¡± compared with ¡°46% mobile subscriptions in 2008¡± {world bank,2013}. That explains mobile phones are no more to make a call or to send a text message but also to interact with people around and entertain. In fact, digital communication is expanding in all Senegalese spheres like the workplace, school, universities... in the latter half of the 20th century before the explosion of social media, people only depended on old media like TV, Radio, Newspapers¡to get informed. For this study, we are going to focus on how social media are impacting economically and politically on Senegalese society and how young people are managing the transition between traditional media and new media. Keywords: interpersonal communication; social media; communication style; social networks; knowledge sharing (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rfa:smcjnl:v:5:y:2017:i:2:p:1-7 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Studies in Media and Communication from Redfame publishing Contact information at EDIRC. |
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