1. Media literacy and participatory culture in the Arab world: An examination of Facebook use among Tunisian youth By Ikram Toumi

3. Patterns of Facebook use of Tunisian youth

5. Facebook use in less studied cultural context.

7. Maintain existing relationships

8. Resurrecting past relationships.

10. Communicating views, attitudes, personal products, etc.

11. Sharing identities

14. civic engagement

15. strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations

16. transfer of knowledge

17. A digital divide measure (Chen and Wellman, 2004)

18. Media literacies and social skills (Jenkins, 2006) Media literacies (Livingstone, 2004) - “The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create messages in a variety of forms” (p. 5)

20. Highly integrated in the respondents’ daily life

21. More significant in the lives of females than males

23. Methodology Instrument: Web survey Population: Tunisian youth and adults18-35 years old Sampling: Snowball technique Process: distribution of the survey link through networks of friends

26. Responses to media content: independently written articles or blog entries, analyses, critique, etc.

27. Group content creation: activities users engage in with likeminded people to support a cause, respond to media content, or as a response to social issues or problems.