Using Information Published on Social Media Sites (Facebook) - A Survey Study On A Sample Of University Professors
Keywords:
Social Media, Published Information, University Professors, Use of Information, FacebookAbstract
The study sheds light on the use of information published on Facebook as one of the social networking sites from the point of view of the professors of the Iraqi universities, the subject of the study, and the extent of their reliance on and confidence in those sources. The survey method was used by distributing an electronic questionnaire (300 copies of the questionnaire) to a sample of professors in three Universities (University of Mosul, Northern Technical University, Al-Hamdaniya University), and their answers were analyzed to reach the desired results of the study, the most important of which is that university professors in the three studied universities sometimes rely (61%) of the sample on Facebook as a source of information, and their degree of trust is up to The percentage of using Facebook as a source of information was (74%). As for the most important elements of using information on Facebook from the sample’s point of view, it was represented by the frequent circulation of information on more than one page, with a percentage of (70%).
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