The Internet and Public Culture in Kuwait

Bibliographic Data

ID9848747
AuthorsDeborah L Wheeler (0000-0003-4281-7492, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume63
Issue2-3
Pages187-201
Publication date2001-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGazette (Leiden Netherlands (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-5492 • E-ISSN: 1460-3594
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0016549201063002006
OpenAlexW2002335956
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited4

This article considers the development and impact of the Internet in Kuwait. It argues that even though important cultural filters shape Internet use, experimentation with new social relationships in cyberspace occur. This is true especially among youths. It performs three kinds of analyses to make its main point. First, it performs a content analysis of the major Kuwaiti daily newspapers in both Arabic and English to illustrate the emergence of a public consciousness of the Internet. Second, it uses survey data to describe the scope and character of the Kuwaiti Internet community in relation to the general population of Kuwait, and in relation to regional Internet access/use patterns. Third, it examines the emerging impacts of Internet use in Kuwait. It concludes that the most significant possibilities for change stem from student use of the Internet to transgress gender boundaries, and to protest the state's new gender law

Consciousness · Cyberspace · Internet privacy · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Population · Public relations · Relation (database · Scope (computer science · Sociology · State (computer science · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · ICT Impact and Policies · Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in MENA

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