The notion of re-mediation sheds light on a shift that takes place gradually from action to reaction, from adjustment to readjustment, from formatting to reformatting, from mediatisation to re-mediatisation, from information to re-information. This shift is not trivial. It underlines the need for a rebalancing, a reorientation of policies and even information, communication and digital strategies. Following this logic, this paper presents social media as a tool of social remediation, in other words, resolving certain issues related to people's place in society and their relationships with others. By favouring speech and social mediation in various virtual discussion forums, social media helps citizens reconnect with the "palaver tree" and "grin" in traditional African societies. The palaver tree is well known, the grin a little less. The term "grin" signifies a place of meeting, entertainment and discussion. It is used in the Bambara cultural sphere (Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast), suggesting that it is a French transliteration of the word "gεrε", which has the same meaning and pronunciation in Bambara. Traditional media outlets have tended to replace these meetings dedicated to speech and discussions, without necessarily fulfilling the same functions. By reconstituting them, social media places citizens at the centre of the mediatised public space, from which they had been excluded. We are thus witnessing remediation, insofar as social media introduces citizens to an agora that was previously inaccessible.
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