The Role of Knowledge Sharing in Reinforcing Civic Engagement Practices in the context of Artificial Intelligence: The Case of the Kingdom of Bahrain

Abstract

This research paper assesses the influence of knowledge sharing on reinforcing knowledge sharing in the context of AI in Bahrain. Since civic engagement is mainly made up of two components which are trust and value, the research seeks to examine the influence of knowledge sharing both on trust and value. The research is a quantitative one that makes use of the experimental design. The research makes use of the questionnaire as a research tool for collecting data. An experiment is applied on the sample of the research in which a chatbot is applied to examine university students' knowledge about using AI for the purpose of knowledge sharing especially through social media platforms. The questionnaire is applied in Pre-experiment stage and post-experiment. The population included 387university students. One hundred were required to complete it pre the experiment. The post-experiment stage 263responses were delivered. The data analysis made the researcher conclude that there is a significant difference toward the influence of knowledge sharing on Civic engagement in the kingdom of Bahrain attributed to the data collected pre and post the experiment. It was also concluded that the relationships between knowledge sharing and civic engagement, and between knowledge sharing and trust and values, indicate a conceptual framework which adds to the existing body of literature in this knowledge domain.