Iraqi youths use of the Internet and the gratifications obtained from it

Abdullah, Hassan Abdel Hadi; Abdullah Khalaf, Jalela

doi:10.37653/juah.2020.171141

	Iraqi youths use of the Internet and the gratifications obtained from it
Journal of University of Anbar for Humanities
Article 20, Volume 2020, Issue 2, 2020, Pages 1553-1584 PDF (718.43 K)
DOI: 10.37653/juah.2020.171141
Authors
Hassan Abdel Hadi Abdullah; Jalela Abdullah Khalaf
Abstract
Abstract: The use of the Internet and the saturation of Iraqi youth Iraqi youth use of the internet and the saturation of it ,The Internet has recently become a very important medium of communication that cannot be abandoned for many individuals. It has spread widely among different audiences for various reasons, the most important of which are its features that differ from other means enabling it to provide many services. For its users, whether as a means of communication or as a source of information in various political, scientific, economic, health, social, and other areas of interest to individuals. Faced with the increasing penetration of the Internet in the Arab world in general and in Iraq in particular, heightened fear of the impact of this network on the formation of young people. They matched the fear of all-new since the printing press entered the live TV. It has been reinforced under the prevalence of the normative vision of the means of communication and their uses, which stands in describing the phenomenon, and the classification of its consequences according to the following bilateral: positive and negative In this light, youth use of the Internet raises a number of problems related to the nature of the use of the network on young people in Iraq, The research sample consisted of 103 respondents distributed
Keywords
Iraqi youth; the Internet; uses and rumors

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