The Impact of Social Media on National Security: the case of Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Tigist Yeshiwas (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kalkidan Solomon | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-01T09:21:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-01T09:21:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Social medias can be used as a mass communication tools and also connection materials, they are in a day to day growing levels and creating a more globalized world bearing in mind their proximity and flexibility, including their lower expenses. These social media podiums are currently reaching social and security consequences for the citizens of Ethiopia, in considering the socio political implications they have also economic impacts in the country. In order to defend Ethiopia’s freedom, security and prosperity, it is only reasonable that many rational and investigated be done about how the government of Ethiopia can connect online social networking trappings and in equal degree controlling the issues in the impacts they brought as a threat to the national security of Ethiopia. The purpose of this study is to investigate social media and national security threats in Ethiopia. The social media can be said to draw it’s respire from the laws and principles of the traditional mass media and the fundamentals of the freedom of expression. Even though there are no laws particularly on the social media, it still runs freely in Ethiopia without any government restraint. This thesis pursues to analyse freedom of expression and to what extent the social media within the Ethiopian context is free and influencing the social media. Generally, as per their nature social medias are quickly evolving and are able to address every sector and direction rendering the geo-economic, political and socio-cultural elements, the thesis will focus on analysing the factors by the social media on the national security of Ethiopia and response on the government also the social media community accordingly | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/5279 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | |
| dc.title | The Impact of Social Media on National Security: the case of Ethiopia | |
| dc.type | Thesis |