Abstract:
Revolutionary movements which began in Tunis in 2010 immediately impressed all Arab countries. These movements have led to many essential changes in the Middle East. So far, four presidents have been ousted from power. Revolutionary forces in the Arab world to achieve their goals used media. So the media played a large role in the revolutionary changes in the Arab countries. Given the media's role in revolutionary movements in the Arab countries, in some of the reviews these revolutions have called as media revolutions. Based on these reviews the media are the main cause of revolutions in the Arab countries. But the main question is: What is the media's role in the revolutions in the Arab countries? Were they really the cause of these revolutions? The study of developments in the Arab countries shows that the media had an important role in the revolutions, but they were not the cause of revolutions. The media helped to spread revolution in the Arab countries and contributed to create the faster victory for revolutionary forces, but they did not cause of revolutions. In this paper effective factors in the revolutionary movements in the Arab countries is explained and the role of media is described. Paper concludes social and political factors created the revolutionary movements in the Arab world, and the media have had an auxiliary role and have acted just as catalyzer.
Machine summary:
Paper concludes social and political factors created the revolutionary movements in the Arab world, and the media have had an auxiliary role and have acted just as catalyzer.
Regarding the role of media at the advent, maintenance and promotion of the protests, some analyzers called Arab countries evolutions as Twitter or Face Book revolution.
Considering the role of socio-political factors, they cannot be ignored in the protests and revolutions established in Arab world and count the media as the germinating factor.
This article has an attempt to examine the effects of the media in revolutionary movements in Arab world as well as introducing social and political factors affecting the emergence of revolutions.
And, of the key factors tapping on the change were anti-USA terrorist groups, Arab governments function change and their significance loss in supplying the interests of the USA, and avoiding the fight against social movements demanding the participation in political and social arenas gained power in the Middle East (Dalacoura, 2005).
From this perspective, generating factors of the revolutions in Arab world included social and political processes in these societies leading to people's dissatisfaction and sparking their protests off.
Social and political processes of Arab world set such conditions for the people of the countries to protests and establish revolutions.
Because – when the scene was provided for revolutionary transformations affected by economic, social, cultural and political factors in Arab countries – media have been effective in reinforcement and accelerating them toward the victory of revolutions.