دور مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي في انتخابات مجلس النواب الأردني الثامن عشر عام 2016 : دراسة ميدانية

الملخص EN

This study represents an attempt to investigate the role of social media in the elections of the eighteenth House of Representatives of Jordan in 2016.The study was conducted at the end of 2016 on a random sample of (437) citizens of Jordanian society.

It adopted an evaluation questionnaire that included a series of questions about the role of social media in the parliamentary elections, and the data was processed using known statistical methods.

Results showed that most of the paragraphs relating to the role of social media in the election of eighteenth Jordanian House of Representatives in 2016 came the with average medium .Results of the study also showed that the most prominent aspects to take advantage of social media in the elections, is that it helps to mobilize and organize the crowd in the elections with an arithmetic average (2.66).

Members of the sample believe that among the advantage of social media, it offered a full parliamentary election news without deleting or distortion with arithmetic averag (2.87), and among the disadvantages, it offered news with negative impact on the elections, with arithmetic average of (2.38).

Regarding the role of social media in the electoral campaign in the parliamentary elections, the results of the study showed social media played a prominent role in the success of the candidate with arithmetic average (2.39).

Finally, results of the study revealed that the most important obstacles to the use of social media in the 2016 parliamentary elections, was the loss of privacy and failure to maintain the information with arithmetic average (3.07).Thus, the study showed that social media plays a great role in elections.