Social media warfare and Kenya's conflict with Al Shabaab in Somalia: A right to know?
Social media warfare and Kenya's conflict with Al Shabaab in Somalia: A right to know?
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社交媒体战争和肯尼亚与索马里青年党的冲突：知情权？
DOI：
10.1093/afraf/ady035
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发表时间：
2019
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影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Molony T
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作者：
Molony T
本文探讨了在社交媒体战争新时代背景下肯尼亚公民了解敏感安全相关信息细节的权利。它考虑了对青年党 2016 年 1 月在索马里埃尔阿德袭击肯尼亚国防军 (KDF) 人员以及一年后在库尔比尤夫发生的类似袭击的公共传播反应。它利用 Twitter 帖子、肯尼亚在索马里军事活动的官方账户，以及（对于社交媒体研究来说不寻常的）定性数据收集的“离线”方法，提出了为什么 KDF 没有提供有关 El Adde 袭击的实时更新，但提供了有关 Kulbiyow 袭击的信息？对于 KDF 的不同反应，我们考虑了三种看似合理的解释。首先，在El Adde时期，KDF在社交媒体传播方面缺乏经验。其次，埃尔阿德告诉韩国国防军，为了不失去最重要的公众舆论，它必须与敌人相匹配，并传播可信的信息。最后，肯尼亚公民声音的增强以及声誉进一步受损的可能性，迫使 KDF 在信息共享方面从“需要知道”的心态转变为更多“知情权”的心态。
This article explores Kenyan citizens’ right to know details about sensitive security-related information in the context of a new era of social media warfare. It considers the public communications response to Al Shabaab’s January 2016 attack on Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) personnel in El Adde, Somalia, and then to a similar attack in Kulbiyow a year later. Drawing on Twitter posts, an official account of Kenya’s military activities in Somalia, and – unusually for the study of social media – on ‘offline’ methods of qualitative data collection, it asks why the KDF did not provide real-time updates about the El Adde attack, but did provide information about the assault on Kulbiyow? Three plausible explanations for the KDF’s differing response are considered. First, at the time of El Adde, the KDF was inexperienced in terms of social media communication. Second, El Adde taught the KDF that in order not to lose the all-important public opinion, it had to match its enemy and also disseminate credible information. Finally, the strengthening voice of Kenyan citizens and the potential for further reputational damage pushed the KDF from a ‘need-to-know’ frame of mind in terms of its sharing of information, to more of a ‘right-to-know’ mentality.