The role of social media on environmental awareness of undergraduate students in University of Sulaimani in Iraq

Abstract EN

Social Media has been grown rapidly as a type of online communication too lwherever users make comments, shares, and put videos, photos and posts on social network at a remarkable rate.

Environmental issues are progressively getting to be concern of the worldwide.

Contribution of media generally and social media particularly in the raising environmental awareness in the target group is important because of produce greater environmental influence on growth of world population and standards for high lifestyle of our communities.

The aim of our project was conducted in the University of Sulaimani at Media Department to investigate the role of social media on environmental awareness of undergraduate students as an example of students at higher education institutions.

The result shows that mostly students uses social media (Facebook) more than four times daily that uses at night on mobile device continuously to get News and information as a number one as priority for them.

The participants were used the social media to get news and information as number one, increase their knowledge as number two, raise awareness about science and education as number three, and finally increase environmental awareness as number four.

In addition, the majority of students were intentioned sometimes to environmental awareness post; also the majority of them have tried to care social media in order to get environmental awareness, and in part, they have tried to post or publish the environmental awareness posts on social media as individual activity.

Furthermore, Facebook has number one, YouTube number two, Instagram number three, and Twitter number four consecutively as level of priority of environmental interest to students.