مدى اعتماد الجمهور السعودي على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي في المعرفة بقضايا المجتمع : دراسة مسحية في مدينة الرياض

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this study aims to identify the motives and objectives that drive the Saudi public to rely on the social networking sites to obtain information on the issues of the Saudi society.

The study also aims to identify which of these social networking sites the public depends on and the reasons that drive the Saudi public reliance on the social networking sites to obtain information on the issues of the Saudi society.

This study also aims to find whether there are statistically significant differences in the motivation of the Saudi public to follow the social networking sites to obtain information on the issues of the Saudi society according to their demographic characteristics, and the extent of a significant statistical correlation between the degree of the Saudi public's reliance on social networking sites to obtain information on the issues of the Saudi society and the use of the social networking sites for networking.

Survey and questionnaire method were used to obtain information with a sample size of (893) Saudi Riyadh-resident individuals.

The results of the study showed the reliance of the sample size individuals on the social networking sites to obtain information on the issues of the Saudi society as the primary reason for the use of these social networking sites.

The results also showed the public's reliance on Twitter to a great extent in obtaining information about the issues of Saudi society