Abstract
ABSTRACTOne of the ways in which social and political mobilisations have converged with the expansion of Internet and social media is through citizen media. The state’s response to the emergence of these new forms of media has also shifted through new forms of censorship, surveillance, and press code measures. This article will examine the interaction between the emergence of new citizen media in Morocco and the state’s policies, by looking at the case of Mamfakinch, a citizen media collective that launched on the eve of the February 20th Movement. Taking into consideration the liberalisation of Morocco’s telecommunications industry, this article will also highlight how ‘plague control’ is used as a tool to extend the state’s authoritarian practices to marginalise organised, critical voices online.
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