The development of communication technologies and their impact on the existing theories in the fieldof media gate guard theory as a model

Abstract

The research aims to explore whether the technical and technological developments that have occurred during the past two decades have affected the theory of gatekeeper, as it is  noted that technical and technological developments during recent years have allowed each person the ability to publish any information without the need for a gatekeeper in the traditional media,  so we see that there  is an escalation  in the intensity of criticism directed at the theory, which is one of the basic theories in the science of communication, as  Most of those who criticize the theory claim that it does not fit with the variables imposed by technical and technological development in the field of media, hence the idea of research arose  to study the theory and stand on the most important variables and factors created by the conditions of technological transformation and that drew the features of the modern communication environment, and to find out  if  it limited the ability of the theory to  interpret the factors that control the conditions of the flow of communication messages down to the public, and from here the research problem was launched, which was expressed by subtracting  A set of questions that represent  the research problem  to  reach accurate scientific answers to it.