Tag: Arab World

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 …

Social media usage continued to grow significantly across the Arab world, especially during the “Arab Spring” social media played a critical role in most of the popular movements in the region. coupled with major shifts in usage trends. Once used merely as a tool for social networking and entertainment, social media now infiltrates almost every aspect …

The study conducted by MBR School of Government revealed that by 2021, it is predicted that 47 million new internet users, 45 million new mobile broadband users and around 160 million new social media users will come online in the Arab region. Many of the transformations are changing how societies in the region interact, how …

Around 15% of internet users in the Arab world said that they provide false personal information on social media. Facebook, Google+ and other Multi-purpose platforms contain around 40.4% of this false information, followed by Twitter and other Microblogging platforms (16%), then Instagram, Pinterest and other Photosharing platforms (10.8%).

About 46% of Arab internet users own more than one account on social media platforms. Facebook holds the highest rate of doubled accounts as 34% of respondents said that they have more than one Facebook account, followed by Google+ with a rate of 18%, then Instagram with a rate of 10.7%.

Roughly  7 in 10 – national – internet users in the Middle East region reported that they changed how they use social media due to privacy concerns. So it’s important to know an overview of the media usage in the region, people thoughts and behavior towards online media: Internet penetration in the Middle East has …

The proportion of internet users in Arab States reached 41.6%, while The proportion of internet users in Africa, including Morocco and South Africa, reached 25.1% by the end of Q2 2016.