تشارك الأخبار و تداولها عبر مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي : دراسة لسلوك الجمهور العربي في استخدام الأخبار الرقمية

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Objective : The research examines sharing online news by Arab users through social media.

It aims at exploring the different variables related to this phenomenon.

Methods : Data of surveying 246 Arab respondents collected by applying an electronic questionnaire on Facebook from December 2017 to February 2018, were analyzed by using a new theoretical model suggested by the author.

Results : the study results revealed that sharing news through social media is a dominant online news consumption behavior among the respondents.

There are several motivations underlying this behavior, the most prominent of which is the respondents' desire to serve the public by providing them with news and information they believe is worth knowing, besides the need to communicate with others through sharing news.

Sharing news is mainly motivated by the degree of trust users have in this news which is more important than other variables related to the news type or content that strongly impacts their decision to share the news.

Conclusion : The study reveals that objective factors have a distinctive effect on sharing news more than personal factors, and there is a consistency between the respondents' awareness of sharing online content ethics and their behaviors to deal with fake or inaccurate online news.

The study proposed a theoretical framework to explain the process of sharing news on social media as a participatory news consumption.