Healing through E`xpression : how the arts transform the experience of Syrian refugees in Jordan

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The aim of this study is to learn about the special journalistic skills in the digital media acquired by media students as a result of their exposure to the electronic newspapers, which is a set of skills that were directly related to the development of the medium from paper to the Internet.

This study was based on the theory of dependence on means of communication.

The descriptive approach was used by the survey of the media students' audience at the Middle East University Media School.

The sample of the study was selected using the random sample method available from 110 students from all levels of study, in the second semester 2017- 2018.

The study found that the behavioral motivation of acquiring special journalistic skills in the digital media in all the measurement subjects by the students came at a high level with an average score of 3.70.

This confirms that the role of the electronic press in providing media students with special journalistic skills in the digital media came strong.

The study showed that there are statistically significant differences in students 'acquisition of special journalistic skills in the digital media according to the average of the cumulative average for the students whose average is acceptable compared to the students whose cumulative average is excellent.

There are also statistically significant differences in the students' acquisition of special press skills in the digital media, The level of study for first year students compared to third year students, and that there are no statistically significant differences towards the acquisition of the skills of journalists in the digital media according to gender.

The study found that the use of cell phones for exposure to electronic journalism among students was high and in the first order was (95.5%) and that the times of exposure in the morning and evening were late (38.2 and 30.9) respectively, and that the method of "intermittent exposure during the day "The number of students in the first place was 53.6%, followed by the first place as a preferred place for students to be exposed to the electronic press (71.8%), Followed by the website of Al-Ghad newspaper at a rate of (41.81%) To arrange the third site "news agent" at a rate of (33.63%).