الشائعات في وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي : تويتر نموذجا

الملخص EN

This study- aimed to determine the content of rumor, its types, its style, its purposes, and its targets, by taking Twitter as an example of a social media.

This study is analytical descriptive.

A qualitative and quantitative approach was adopted by using a content analysis method for the total completed tweets (62 tweets).

The items were retrieved from the Anti-Rumor Authority account, over a period from 7.>’1/2016 to 28’12'2016.

The study found that the content of the rumor takes many forms and types, often related to the nature of circumstances and situations in which they appear, and are directed to individuals and symbols of die community, groups, movements, organizations, or communities that have m common certain factors such as race, religion, or even shared issues among them.

The purpose of the rumor are multiple and range from inciting members of society against the state, to inciting to religious passion and destabilization of security.

There is a wide variety of rumors that range from religious rumors, to social rumors, political rumors, security rumors, and finally scientific rumors.

Besides, the rumor has different styles and methods: there is first the provocation method, followed by the intimidation method the exploitation method, and finally die ironic method.

The main target of rumors is die state and then the Arabs