استخدامات الشباب الفلسطيني لتطبيقات الهاتف الذكي و تأثيراتها فيهم : دراسة ميدانية على الشباب في قطاع غزة

Abstract EN

The study aims to identify to uses of Palestinian youth for smartphone applications and the study answers a set of questions, the most important of them: what are the uses of Palestinian youth for smartphone applications and their effect on them.

The study was applied to Palestinian youth community and a sample of (200) respondents from the governors of the Gaza Strip.

The most important results of the study indicate Palestinian youth use smartphone applications, especially social networks for long hours daily, Facebook application got the first rank among applications in usage and browsing, The first motivation among youth's uses of smartphone applications is to browse social media applications, Palestinian youth use smartphone applications for news needs, to follow what is happening around them and to monitor the environment.

This result is consistent with its reality and is conflict with the Israeli occupation.

It also reflect Palestinian youth awareness and their adherence to their land despite its strict reality.

The Palestinian youth of the same study are affected positively by its use of smartphone applications and it achieves a set of benefits, the most important of them: get to know the community more broadly.

Learn about all that is new, entertainment, see and follow all the news.

It is negatively affected by his use of these applications to a lesser extent; this reflects the harmful effects of these applications on Palestinian youth as smartphone addiction, isolation from society, family and friends, changing lifestyles and lack of sleeping hours.

The study recommends limiting the hours of youth's use of a mobile phone and its applications, real youth participation enables him to take a real role in society and increase the applications related the transfer of Israeli violations as a create an application for Jerusalem issues and application for the Palestinian narrative to keep the memories of young people and tell their cause to the world.