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Merfat Alardawi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual and Audio Production at King Abdulaziz University. She received her PhD from Dublin City University, Ireland in 2023 for her research into the impact of watching Turkish drama on Saudi women's attitudes and perception patterns. Her core research interests include the areas of drama, television and film studies, with a particular interest concern the relationship between drama and comparative cultural studies.
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هدفت الدراسة إلى التعرف على المضامين الثقافية الاجتماعية التي تقدمها برامج البوكاست السعودي؛ ولتحقيق هذا الهدف وظفت الدراسة الحالية نظرية الأطر الإعلامية التي تعد مدخلاً مناسبًا للتعرف على السمات والموضوعات الثقافية الاجتماعية في البودكاست السعودي. اتبعت الدراسة المنهج النوعي، باستخدام أداة تحليل المضمون لعينة مكونة من 22 حلقة من بودكاست "فنجان" تض...
This research attempts to trace track and highlight the most significant milestones, achieved in history during the initiation and popularity of television in the country. The study adopted a descriptive method and conducted the analysis using secondary resources, published articles, and a thesis. The analysis entailed the role of both the state-ow...
This study investigates why the Squid Game TV show is so successful among young Saudis across cultural divides. It explores the engagement of young Saudi audiences with the show and the range of enjoyment they derive from it, via a mixed-methodology consisting of two stages: a preliminary survey and comprehensive focus group sessions. The data is g...
Podcasting as a platform that can transmit media content via audio files,
exemplifies its creative character. Within the context of Saudi Arabia, it has
become a new pathway for business opportunities for Saudi content creators
and podcasters. Thus, the study aims to explore the challenges and
opportunities for Saudi podcasters. The study used the...
This paper discusses a comparative qualitative cultural study, using the content analysis approach. It examined the pattern of Script Television Formats (STF) in two versions of the Danish detective series Forbrydelsen, i.e. the Arabic version, named Dangerous Curve, and the American version, The Killing. It aimed to identify the localization of th...
Medical dramas have become a widely consumed media genre, providing audiences with health information and entertainment. Based on the uses and gratifications theory, this study analyzed the factors motivating Saudi medical students to watch foreign medical dramas and explored how these motivations were related to their engagement (selectivity, atte...
Foreign drama is considered one of the most frequently watched and followed programmes by Arab and Saudi audiences. This study examined a famous televised drama called My Brilliant Friend, which has gained considerable popularity among Saudi viewers through the digital viewing platform Shahid VIP. It was aimed at determining cultural identity. I wa...
Foreign drama is considered one of the most frequently watched and followed
programmes by Arab and Saudi audiences. This study examined a famous televised
drama called My Brilliant Friend, which has gained considerable popularity among
Saudi viewers through the digital viewing platform Shahid VIP. It was aimed at
determining cultural identity. I wa...
Female representation in film continues to be a new area of research in Gulf countries, particularly Saudi Arabia. Mahmoud Sabbagh, the writer and director of the Netflix film Amra and the Second Marriage, has portrayed Saudi women in various ways. His work was recognized with the Best Film award at the Cinematic Festival of Film Across Three Conti...
This research investigates how a representative sample population of Saudi women engage with and receive a range of sociocultural values represented and embedded within such Turkish televisual drama. This study applies both Cultivation (Gerbner and Gross 1976) and Social Identity theory (Tajfel 1978) to frame an exploratory sequential mixed-method...
This quantitative study examines Saudi viewers’ perceptions of the Japanese anime Attack on Titan. Data collection was undertaken by means of an online survey of 346 viewers of the animation, aged between fourteen and thirty-eight. The results indicated that the most popular characters were Levi, Eren, and Mikasa, with the least liked being the Arm...
In the 2000s, Turkish drama series began airing in Saudi Arabia and other countries outside Turkey. Perhaps unexpectedly, they have proven exceptionally attractive to global audiences. Typically, these dramas define and present female characters who can be considered liberal in their adherence to traditional cultural values. To date, despite the gr...
Dramas made in Turkey are the most popular soap opera-type in the Arab world and are often watched by women. This study aimed to investigate, from a critical perspective, the impact that Turkish dramas (TDs) might have on developing attitudes of Saudi women. While more than 60 country-specific studies in the Middle East and North Africa have invest...
The objective of this study is to examine the impact of Game of Thrones on the cultural identity of young Saudi males. The study also discovered the reasons why Saudi males watch American TV series (Game of Thrones) from a critical cultural perspective. This study has collected the data using an online survey conducted on 63 Saudi male adolescents...
