Exposure to electronic journalism and its relationship to the prioritization of issues among Iraqi university youth (Field study)

Abstract

Electronic journalism represents a communication model within the framework of communication and media sciences. It is also considered one of the primary sources of information upon which individuals and society build their positions and attitudes regarding current events on the local, regional and international scene.

Given the characteristics and features of electronic journalism, such as its global reach, speed of access, interactivity, multi-media presence, and low cost, we found it necessary to study and research it through an important segment of society, namely university students, who are considered the most users of these media due to their various needs, including educational ones, and due to the need of these media for people with knowledge and experience in the field of modern technology and its various media.

This research aims to monitor the extent of university youth’s exposure to electronic journalism, and its relationship to their prioritization of issues, and to describe this relationship, and to know the type of electronic newspapers that they use most, and to monitor their attitudes towards them, and to research their effects on them, arriving at general results and hypothesis testing results, which can be employed in the future in the field of scientific research.