دور وسائل الإعلام الجديد في تفعيل صحافة المواطن : دراسة لعينة من طلبة جامعة طبرق

Abstract EN

This study moved from a problem revolving around the new means of media as one of up-to-date devices of technology, which resulted in achieving interaction among people in a way that permits the user of the net to communicate with others locally and internationally through information and knowledge share on various topics.

This, of course, leads to forming education on activation of the individual press.

Hence, this study has come to search about the following main question of the study: What is the role of the up-to-date means of media in activation of the individual’s press? Out of this main question, other sub-questions have emerged around types and usages as well the satisfactions achieved and motives of usage.

This study is descriptive based on the descriptive approach.

The type of the sample selected in this study has been selected intentionally as a sample consisted of 50 participants from students of the Department of Media at Tobruk University, using the questionnaire form as a tool.

The study handles first the methodology as it exposes objectives of the study, questions of the study, and importance of the study.

Then, the study has identified the previous studies relevant to the variables of this study.

Second, the study presents the concept of means of up-to-date media, its names, characteristics, the most prominent phenomena associated to the up-to-date media, and the individual’s press definition, types, characteristics, and the factors affecting, then the individual’s press and the new ethics.

As for the empirical frame, the researcher set up the data and analyzed them qualitatively and quantitatively to obtain 47 questionnaire forms valid for statistical analysis through SPSS.

Through this process, the researcher could get 17 tables, where the following findings have been obtained: -The Libyan youths use means of up-to-date media continuously, and the main reason for using such means is to be aware of the news and information as well sharing them.

-The study has confirmed that the journalist gets information from the up-to-date media other than the traditional media.

-The findings of the study show that the means of the up-to-date media makes the journalist a producer of news and events not, as it was known in the past, as a receiver.

-The study has concluded that there has been no statistical correlation among the main variables (the scope of usage, type of usage, motives of usages, and satisfactions) and the variables of type and age.