اتجاهات النخب الاقتصادية الكويتية نحو التغطية الإعلامية لتطبيق تويتر لقضايا الإصلاح الاقتصادي في الكويت : دراسة ميدانية

Abstract EN

Aim of the paper : the study aimed at identifying the attitudes of the Kuwaiti economic elites towards of the media coverage of twitter for economic reform issues in Kuwait, and the credibility of “twitter” in addressing these issues.

it accordingly aims to identify the relationship between the exposure of the Kuwaiti economic elites to economic reform issues through twitter and the nature of attitudes formed by the application in addressing these issues.

the study also seeks to identify the significance differences in the attitudes of Kuwaiti economic elites towards the coverage of “twitter” for economic reform issues attributable to the variables of gender, age and educational qualification.

study design: the study used the descriptive and analytical survey method to reach explanatory results.

sample and data: the intentional sample available in the study was approved, and the total sample was (150) individual economic elites out of (200), (131) males and (19) females, to identify the economic elites’ attitudes towards twitter’s coverage of economic reform issues.

results : the results showed that (38.7%) of the sample of elites are always using twitter, and (44.7%) of them sometimes used it, while (50.6%) of the economic elites said that the role of “twitter” when dealing with issues of economic reform was moderate.