Vision et usages enchantés des réseaux sociaux numériques au Burkina Faso

The purpose of this article is to elucidate the mechanism underlying faith in Technology. The authors see the phenomenon as originating in the power of a myth built around information and communications technology. They analyze a corpus of qualitative interviews with a sample of Burkinabe internet users and participants in the 2014 Burkinabe uprising. The objective was to find the reasons for the respondents’ use of digital social media and investigate the images determining that use.