Tag: Arab Region

The influence of social media has been felt in the recent political uprisings in the Arab world. In the Arab region, the tools of social media played a crucial role in mobilizing. Whether it is Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, or Blogs, they all have found themselves central to the uprisings in an unprecedented way. The …

If media simply means communication, social media for sure can be defined as websites or other internet-based services where the content being communicated is created by the people who use the service, unlike the news website, where the content is created by a journalistic and editorial staff for mass consumption, on social media sites there …

Arab nationals have a high dependence on social media platforms especially Facebook, as 63% of them are using it in 2017. But Lebanese are the most Arab nationals in using Facebook with a rate of 77%, followed by Jordanians and Emiratis at the same level with a rate of 70%. Facebook usage is high everywhere except …