New Feminist Claims and Digital Media: Circumvention of Social and Religious Prohibitions in Tunisia and Morocco

Abstract

This paper deals with the question of Tunisian and Moroccan women presence on social networks.An analysis of how they grab these digital tools to make their new right claims visible.Our methodology and our questions arise essentially from the ethnography of electronic communication and semio-pragmatics.Our objective here is to observe and describe devices, uses and actors involved in these new online mobilization and activismmedia for women benefit in Tunisia and Morocco. Two web corpuses are analyzed.The first corpus comes from a regular watch on Facebook accounts of associations, activists and ordinary net users in Tunisia.The second one is made up of 12 episodes of “Marokkiates” web series broadcast on Facebook and Youtube in 2017-2018.These corpuses have led to a contrastive study of new digital forms of mobilization, circumvention of social or religious prohibitions,activism for women new rights detailing as well the current feminism uses in the two north Africa countries.

Keywords

• women
• religion
• feminist struggle
• social media