التفاعل عبر شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي و علاقته بالاتجاه نحو التطرف لدى طلبة الجامعة

الملخص EN

The research aims to identify the relationship between the type of interaction across the social networks and the trend towards extremism in the university students.

To transfer this problem to the study and research area, the researcher adopted a number of objectives.

To achieve these goals, the researcher set up a questionnaire to measure the type of networks commonly used by the research sample, determine the type of interaction across them and adopted the scale (Zahrani 2018) to measure the trend towards extremism.

After the application of the two tools on the basic research sample of (200) students, 100 male students and (100) female students from the Faculty of Education for Human Sciences at the University of Basra and by processing the data collected using the statistical bag (spss); the results of the study showed that the sample somehow possesses low extremism.

The results showed that the number of students using social networks was 102 students and 51%.

The percentages of use of these networks varied, as Instagram recorded the highest percentage of usage (93.

13%) followed by Facebook (88.

24 % ), Snapchat (85.

29 %), Twitter (19.

61 %).

The results showed that the students using Instagram and Facebook reached 95 students.

The percentage of those who interact with constructive positive comments (56.

84 % versus 43.

2 %) reacted with extreme negative comments.

Furthermore, The research reached a positive connection and statistically significant between the two variables.

In light of these findings, the study concluded with a number of conclusions, recommendations and proposals.