ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Polit. Sci.
Sec. International Studies
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1622520
Women's use of news' media and its effect on political engagement in post-Arab Spring countries
Provisionally accepted
- 1Masaryk University, Czech Republic, Czechia
- 2Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait, Kuwait
- 3American University of Kuwait, Safat, Kuwait
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The Arab Spring Uprisings of 2010-2011 highlighted the political agency of women. The Twitter or Facebook Revolution epithet for the phenomenon suggests an emancipatory function of the media for them. This study analyses data from the 2013-2014 World Value Survey to examine whether the choice and format of news media predicts political attitudes and actions among Arab women. The study shows that vertical and horizontal media predict political attitudes, with horizontal media predicting Arab non-traditional political attitudes. Internet’s news had a great impact on political involvement. The study suggests that while news media sources and formats had impact on political attitudes, perceptions about social institutions, political processes, and demographics had greater influence on women’s political actions.
Keywords: Arab Spring, Arab women's Agency, Uses and gratifications, political attitudes, Political actions, Vertical and Horizontal Media
Received: 03 May 2025; Accepted: 14 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Chen, Al-Kandari and Alsaber. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Ahmad Alsaber, American University of Kuwait, Safat, Kuwait
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