How Social Media Shapes Culture and Identity Among Youth

Empirical Insights from the Gulf Region

This collection highlights underrepresented narratives on how social media shapes identity, culture, and politics amongst youth in the Gulf region. Using quantitative and qualitative studies, it explores the impact on university students’ critical thinking, creativity, communication, and adherence to traditional values.

This edited volume introduces underrepresented narratives on how digital media platforms shape identity, culture, and politics among young audiences in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, with a special focus on Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, two of the world’s most digitally connected regions.

The 17 quantitative studies in this collection explore the extent to which social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat influence Saudi youth values, affect Bahraini women’s beauty standards, foster critical thinking among students, and enhance Saudi Arabia’s global image and public diplomacy. It also examines how journalists at media institutions and Bahrain's Ministry of Information utilize artificial intelligence applications and WhatsApp to facilitate their work and communication.

The volume’s reliance on a systematic adaptation of Cultivation Theory as a theoretical framework across the chapters ensures a coherent research agenda and methodological rigor. Its adoption of descriptive and quantitative approaches reinforces its academic contribution to media effects research.

The empirical insights presented in this volume are an essential resource for scholars, students, and policymakers interested in media, culture, and youth in the Gulf region.

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Contributor: Zainab Abdul-Nabi (Edited by), Mohamed Alawainati (Edited by)

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