Appropriation stratégique des réseaux sociaux numériques comme médium de communication de la crise politique en république Centrafricaine (RCA)*

Abstract

The current work is questioning about social Medias place as channels of communication for December 2020 to January 2022 political and military crisis and how Internet users are using this tool to communicate. Whence the work suggests of dissuading every plotting view which assigns exclusively to social medias a manipulating vocation of political objects that they use, by definition, cannot be acknowledge as ambivalent. But they present themselves as resources for Central African citizens to build conscience, transform social and political behavior. Elsewhere, internet users do not resources. They play the role of conscience makers. At this fact, the Central African political actors’ Facebook official pages have served to us as case to study. In fact, our work is redirected around the questions: What are the social media effects in central Africa during the war? What are the identities of internet users? What are their bets from which these digital uses can be generated into this political crisis? Which relationship drawn between these users and this political crisis? Answering these questionings has led us to understand and explain how social medias, becoming a tool to awake conscience; identify internet users by announced identities study; to analyze the role played by these users during the political crisis and finally determine impact introduced by these users on national opinions. The mobilized theory scale to give account of this turned around theories about social Medias, the strength of weak ties and the conflict. We opted for a qualitative and quantitative study. Thus, we book ourselves in the logical empirical-inductive study. The methodological tools used are documentary research, exploitation of internet users’ publications during military-political crisis, semi-directed conversation with selected authors (Professors, Students, Experts, Journalists, Politicians, Religious, and Traders) and questionnaire. This study results as well as Central African political actors show that they have conceived social Medias as support to the political crisis communication. Meanwhile, political actors’ digital communication is suffering of sensational communication, trends and fact rarely diplomatic and responsible communication. This jam for social Medias favors then the set of an equal and transparent society’s space and the citizen surveying inside what citizens are free and speak on social matters.