Communicator of the month: Emna Ben Jemaa, university lecturer and journalist
They are well-educated and well-connected. Many of them are students. And they are protesting. In Tunisia, a young generation has, with the help of new communication channels such as Twitter, Facebook, etc., a young generation in Tunisia sparked the «Jasmine Revolution» and brought down the government . And the power of communication and knowledge is now putting other governments in other Arab countries under pressure.
On behalf of these intrepid people in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries, Swiss Advertising SW is therefore naming Emna Ben Jemaa as Communicator of the Month. 33-year-old Ben Jemaa is a lecturer at the private Time University in Tunis, Tunisia, and works as a journalist. In blogs, on Facebook and on Twitter, she and other fellow campaigners have done what has now triggered the beginning of a new chapter in (democratic) history: she has communicated. History is currently being written once again - primarily thanks to modern means of communication and because there are courageous people who obtain information, pass on messages and create knowledge, according to a SW press release. And further: "Without being able to make a political judgment or assessment: It is simply tremendous what is currently happening thanks to modern means of communication, and what we can experience thanks to communication. We are reminded of the invention of the printing press and what it ultimately triggered: enlightenment, reformation, democracy. What would not have been possible back then without books is inconceivable today without the Internet, cell phones, etc. But it takes courageous people like Martin Luther to use the means of communication to break power. Power that can only "work" through censorship. Through censorship of information. Neither the "Inquisition" nor other dictatorships were able to maintain their power in the long term as soon as knowledge and information became freely available."
