Date of Award
12-5-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Mass Communications, MSMC
First Advisor
Marceline Hayes
Committee Members
Holly Hall; Mary Pitts
Call Number
LD 251 .A5665t 2018 A42
Abstract
Twitter is one of the most influential platforms for the Saudi Arabian society. This illustrates the number of Saudi users in Twitter which reaches 13 million. Hence, this paper seeks to identify how Saudi users express their personal and social identities through this particular platform. Moreover, it aims to identify the factors that influence the use of Twitter in Saudi Arabia. Further, this paper seeks to identify how the Saudi use of Twitter influences the development of expressing their personal identities. The results show that the users' personal identities are more important than their social ones in Twitter. However, being Muslim is the most important social identity for Saudi users. Moreover, the weakness of the traditional media is the top factor that influences the use of Twitter in Saudi Arabia. In Twitter, the personal identity behaviors are weakly associated to the use of Twitter among Saudi users.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Alhumaid, Barrak Abdulrahman, "Perceived Impact of Twitter on Saudi Arabian Users' Perceptions of Their Personal Identities" (2018). Student Theses and Dissertations. 476.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/476
