دور البرامج الحوارية في القنوات الفضائية العربية في إمداد الجالية المصرية بمملكة البحرين بالمعلومات عن القضايا السياسية : دراسة ميدانية

Abstract EN

This study focuses on the role of talk shows in the Arabic TV channels in providing the Egyptian community in Bahrain with information on political issues, The study aims to identify the most important talk shows that are watched by Egyptian community in Kingdom of Bahrain, the motives of exposure, and effects of cognitive, affective and behavioral consequences of this exposure, depending on the purposive sample of 400 from the Egyptian community in Bahrain, using the questionnaire to collect the data, through the theory of Media dependency.

The results of the study, including: - the results of the study revealed that the most favorable important channels were - respectively - as follows: Al-Jazeera with ratio 23%, Dream 2 with ratio 19.8%, the Egyptian Satellite Channel with ratio 17.8%, Arabia channel with ratio 13%, Mehwer channel with ratio 8.7, Al- Hayat channel with ratio 7.2%, OTV channel with ratio 6.2%, and the Orbit channel with ratio 5.3%.

There is a relationship between the Exposure’s rate of the Egyptian community to talk shows on Arabic channels and utilitarian motives for these programs.

The degree of dependency of the Egyptian community to talk shows on Arabic satellite channels is varying according to various demographic variables (gender, age, educational level, the nature of the accommodation).