Date of Award
9-4-2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Journalism, MSMC
First Advisor
Po-Lin Pan
Committee Members
Lillie Fears; Lily Zeng
Call Number
LD 251 .A566t 2015 F23
Abstract
This study was designed to examine how social media changed the culture of expression in Saudi Arabia. This study surveyed 400 Saudis who use social media in order to explore potential correlations between degree of expression, political activeness, amount of social media use, perceived opinion climate, government censorship and purposes for using social media. A survey questionnaire was used to answer proposed hypotheses and research questions. The results found strong correlations between different variances, namely the amount of social media use, degree of expression freedom, and level of political activeness. Also a strong significant impact was found on the way that people perceived the opinion climate via social media. Moreover, entertainment was the main purpose for Saudis to use social media that influenced their expression freedom, political activeness, perceived opinion climate.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Faqihi, Mohammed Hassan, "The Climate of Public Opinion in the Digital Age: Exploring the Impact of Social Media on Freedom of Expression and Political Activeness in Saudi Arabia" (2015). Student Theses and Dissertations. 737.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/737
