الشائعات في المواقع الإخبارية و تأثيرها على الوعي الاجتماعي لدى مستخدميها

الملخص EN

The study aimed to identify the impact of Rumors of news sites on the social awareness on its users in the following sub-goals: Identifying the user's members for the word "Rumors" and how they can deal with, Identifying the role of the (Gender, Age, Qualifications) in the impact of Rumors on the Social Awareness of users and how they confront and address them by applying a Questionare sheet on 400 on news site’s users (individually).

The study has concluded some results, the most importance ones was the following: that most of the sample’s members see that the definition of Rumor is Dissemination of uncertain and unknown information and it is based on excitement and dissemination of news that appeal to the public when there is a lack of information, And the study also has conclude that they believe that Rumors are a true news until they proof the opposite, it also concludes that most of the sample’s members that there are no statistically significant differences attributed to the variables (Gender, Age) among the sample the extent of the impact of Rumors of Websites on the Social Awareness of its users, the study also confirmed that there are differences of statiidtical significance due to the level of Education in the extent of the impact of the Rumors of Websites on the Social Awareness of its users in favor of higher Education levels (University, Education) and the most important Mechchanisms to confront Rumors through news sites from the point of view of the sample: Provide official information with complete transparency of all news sites.

The Researcher recommended the need to create support for pages, accounts, and sites aimed at detecting Rumors, establishing a Media and Research Center to control the Rumors and working to trace the sources and analyze them and deny them on the basis of Scientific, the need to work the seminars and Workshops to discuss the subject of Rumors and to deal with them before users.