The impact of the Internet on political attitudes in Kuwait and Egypt

Al-Kandari, Ali A.; Hasanen, Mohammed M.

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2011.10.005

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“…As such, most of the news have been covered and are controlled by the editors. This finding is in line with many researches done previously (Kavanaugh, 2016;Siebert, Peterson, & Schramm, 1963;Al-Kandari & Hasanen, 2012;Salman et al, 2011). Some informants even said that it is wasted their time and money to buy newspapers which are bias.…”

Section: Public's Perceptions Of the Traditional News Media (Researchsupporting

confidence: 93%

“…However, Malaysian local media have been facing difficulties in reporting "balanced" coverage especially relating to politics since the introduction of tight laws and regulations that regulate the media (Weiss, 2012). On that count, it is difficult for the public to acquire reliable information from the media due to the constraints on freedom of the press (Kavanaugh, 2016;Siebert, Peterson, & Schramm, 1963;Al-Kandari & Hasanen, 2012;Salman, Ibrahim, Hj-Abdullah, Mustaffa, & Mahbob, 2011). Freedom House gave Malaysia an aggregate score 45 (A larger aggregate score indicates a greater level of freedom) for press and internet freedom in 2016, indicating a "partly free" status (Freedom House, 2016).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Media Usage Patterns among Chinese Voters: In Preparation for the 14th Malaysian General Election (GE14)

Chang¹,

Tham

2016

ASS

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The growing popularity of networked media has given opportunities for the people in this democratic society to search for diverse information and compare information with other sources of information, thereafter making their choice to whom they want to elect and to which information they think is reliable. Notwithstanding the influential power of networked media in elections, among people who have access to this media, there are still people who just rely on traditional media or use both at the same time for information seeking. This study seeks to explore the media usage pattern of Chinese voters in Peninsular Malaysia in preparing the Malaysian 14 th General Election. 10 focus group discussions (FGD) were conducted in seven states, namely Selangor, Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Melaka, Johor Bahru, Kota Bahru and Terengganu. A total of 95 informants of whom were eligible Chinese voters, ranging in age from 21 to 65, were invited to participate in the FGDs. The result shows that social media especially Facebook is the prominent communication and entertainment tool as well as the source of information used by majority of informants from the seven states. Our result also shows that traditional media will not be replaced by networked media, at least, at this point in time as our informants still use traditional media to verify the reliability of news on social media occasionally. The researchers suggest that strategic and effective communication plan with should be planned and implemented by using both media (i.e., traditional and social media) in coming GE14.

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Section: Public's Perceptions Of the Traditional News Media (Researchsupporting

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Media Usage Patterns among Chinese Voters: In Preparation for the 14th Malaysian General Election (GE14)

Chang¹,

Tham

2016

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“…Equation (1) implies that scale-free networks have very few nodes that are highly connected, whereas the majority of them are not. Highly-connected nodes are called hubs, and their degrees tend to be orders of magnitude higher than that of the average nodes.…”

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“…This fact prompted Scotland Yard to disrupt the communications on Twitter. Twitter played also a pivotal role in the Arab Spring [1] and in the Spanish 15M movement [2]. Therefore, it is really necessary to model this type of network to be able to predict future behaviors, to fight against malware and spam spreading, for marketing, etc.…”

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A Model for Scale-Free Networks: Application to Twitter

Aparicio

Villazón-Terrazas

Alvarez

2015

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Abstract:In the last few years, complex networks have become an increasingly relevant research topic due to the large number of fields of application. Particularly, complex networks are especially significant in the area of modern online social networks (OSNs). OSNs are actually a challenge for complex network analysis, as they present some characteristics that hinder topology processing. Concretely, social networks' volume is exceedingly big, as they have a high number of nodes and links. One of the most popular and influential OSNs is Twitter. In this paper, we present a model to describe the growth of scale-free networks. This model is applied to Twitter after checking that it can be considered a "scale-free" complex network fulfilling the small world property. Checking this property involves the calculation of the shortest path between any two nodes of the network. Given the difficulty of this computation for large networks, a new heuristic method is also proposed to find the upper bounds of the path lengths instead of computing the exact length.

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“…In [20] the point is raised that the role of Al Jazeera should also not be ignored and that, in fact, Al Jazeera is tightly linked with peer-produced material, as exemplified by their Creative Commons 2 and "The Stream" 3 initiatives. Two survey-based studies on political engagement and (i) Internet usage in Egypt and the (ii) how people imagine networks across dimensions of class, religion and other factors are presented in [21] and [22] respectively.…”

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Secular vs. Islamist polarization in Egypt on Twitter

Weber

Garimella

Batayneh

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining

104

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We use public data from Twitter, both in English and Arabic, to study the phenomenon of secular vs. Islamist polarization in Twitter. Starting with a set of prominent seed Twitter users from both camps, we follow retweeting edges to obtain an extended network of users with inferred political orientation. We present an in-depth description of the members of the two camps, both in terms of behavior on Twitter and in terms of offline characteristics such as gender. Through the identification of partisan users, we compute a valence on the secular vs. Islamist axis for hashtags and use this information both to analyze topical interests and to quantify how polarized society as a whole is at a given point in time. For the last 12 months, large values on this "polarization barometer" coincided with periods of violence. Tweets are furthermore annotated using hand-crafted dictionaries to quantify the usage of (i) religious terms, (ii) derogatory terms referring to other religions, and (ii) references to charitable acts. The combination of all the information allows us to test and quantify a number of stereo-typical hypotheses such as (i) that religiosity and political Islamism are correlated, (ii) that political Islamism and negative views on other religions are linked, (iii) that religiosity goes hand in hand with charitable giving, and (iv) that the followers of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood are more tightly connected and expressing themselves "in unison" than the secular opposition. Whereas a lot of existing literature on the Arab Spring and the Egyptian Revolution is largely of qualitative and descriptive nature, our contribution lies in providing a quantitative and datadriven analysis of online communication in this dynamic and politically charged part of the world.

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The impact of the Internet on political attitudes in Kuwait and Egypt

Cited by 35 publications

References 16 publications

Media Usage Patterns among Chinese Voters: In Preparation for the 14th Malaysian General Election (GE14)

Media Usage Patterns among Chinese Voters: In Preparation for the 14th Malaysian General Election (GE14)

A Model for Scale-Free Networks: Application to Twitter

Secular vs. Islamist polarization in Egypt on Twitter

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