Blogging as Digital Citizen Participation

The Case of the Malagasy Diaspora

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12955352
AutoresFortunat Miarintsoa Andrianimanana (0000-0003-0685-6283, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, autor correspondente), C Roca-Cuberes (0000-0002-3604-8722, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Ano2021
Volume13
Fascículo1-2
Páginas119-138
Data de publicação2021-11-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrican Diaspora (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1872-5457 • E-ISSN: 1872-5465
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/18725465-bja10018
OpenAlexW3213412097
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas27

This article analyses the political blogging of the Malagasy diaspora as part of their transnational political participation. It focuses on three aspects of the blogs: the most frequent topics addressed, how are the topics addressed, and the political bloggers. To do this, a Thematic Content Analysis based on four categories (‘soapboxes’, ‘transmission belts’, ‘conversation starters’ and ‘mobilisers’) of four of their most active and influential political blogs was conducted. The analysis revealed that (i) the blogs are mostly “soapboxes” that consist of commenting the political issues in Madagascar, (ii) their contents were mostly focused on the coup d’ état in 2009, and (iii) the bloggers are involved in direct political participation in parallel offline. This paper shows the role of the studied blogs as tribunes of opinions that gather a partisan audience discussing the Malagasy political issues, and as judgment tools contributing to the braking or fuelling of Madagascar’s international relations

Conversation · Diaspora · Media studies · Political communication · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Communication · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia