On the Role of the Media in Political Processes: the Arab Spring
https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2023-11-3-86-99
Abstract
This article analyses the potential of the media in modeling different political processes. It examines theoretical aspects of media influence in instigating revolutionary and destabilising events and describes the key communicative-psychological tools of influence. The article also analyses the specifics of media policy to reinforce protest sentiments in Iran during the recent mass demonstrations. It describes in details the role and strategy of the media in the context of the Arab Spring, using the revolutionary events in Egypt and other Arab countries as an example. The article concludes that the media, including the “new media”, actively using Internet platforms and social media, plays an increasingly important role in shaping public opinion for certain political purposes.
Keywords
mass media,
revolutions,
protests,
Arab Spring,
Middle East,
Al Jazeera,
Arab countries,
Egypt,
Iran
About the Author
I. N. Vodyanov
Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Arab Republic of Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
Vodyanov Ilya Nikolaevich – Third Secretary of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Arab Republic of Egypt, doctoral student of the Faculty of Journalism
of the Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
12611, Egypt, Cairo, Giza st., 95
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