دور الفيس بوك في تشكيل صورة السياسيين العراقيين

Abstract EN

Nature of the employment of new mass media, as represented via Facebook, by Iraqi politicians, and the consequences as to the images formed about them across such media by public audience; as well, the attempt is made to understand the nature of the effect of the propagandistic employment of new mass media on public audience in terms of Cultivation Theory as adopted by the researcher, along with the public audience's standpoint towards what is being exposed on the politicians' pages on new mass media (Facebook).

The researcher has arrived at a number of results; of which are the following : 1- Politicians employ Facebook to a great extent.

2- Facebook has not made better the politicians' images, but the images formed about them meant that they are after their personal interests (ranked first), they are sectarianists, and last, they tend to make foreign relations abroad.

3- Politicians have employed many methods on Facebook : religious factor (ranked first),(ranked second),and (ranked third).