Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-94333-7
Ph.D.
Mass Communication and Media Arts
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
2015
This dissertation was conducted to determine whom the Kuwaiti newspapers indexed in their news reports during the Karamat Watan protests, and how Twitter influenced the indexing process. This study also examined how and why Twitter affected Kuwaiti journalists' agenda building process during their coverage of the protests. For the purpose of this study, the theoretical framework was the indexing model and the agenda building theory. To answer the research questions and hypothesis in this dissertation the researcher used a mixed method approach, comprising the quantitative content analysis of Kuwaiti newspapers and qualitative in-depth interviews with Kuwaiti journalists.
Journalism; Mass communications
Communication and the arts;Arab spring;Indexing model;Journalism;Kuwait;Mass communication;Twitter