إستخدام الشباب لشبكات التواصل الاجتماعي وعلاقته بالتعرض للتلفزيون : دراسة مسحية على طلبة المدارس الإعدادية في محافظة واسط أنموذجا
The study addressed using the youth for social network sites and its relationship to exposure to television, it describes the challenges faced by the television in the spread of social network sites, and high numbers of users and in particular the youth class to which it refers many studies has the most widely used category for social network sites, the study aimed to reveal the habits and use patterns of youth for social network sites and determine the needs and motivations of youth use for those networks, and learn about the habits and patterns of exposure of youth for television, in addition to the study examines the competitive relationship and complementarily between social network sites and television by identifying the extent of the reflection of the use of such networks on exposure to television and determine the scope of interest youth to search for content that produced by the television in social network sites. The researcher has used the survey approach, which aims to collect data from respondents, depending on the form of a questionnaire as a key tool for data collection, was a multi-stage random sample application to 381 respondents from high school students in Wasit province, and the study reached several conclusions, including; 1) Higher for youth to use social network sites, as results showed that 94.7% of the respondents use social network sites while those who do not use accounted for 5.3%. 2) The use of youth head for the social networking site for (Face book), who was one of the most widely used social networking sites for the respondents and was followed by site (YouTube) in second Rank and the site (Twitter) ranked third. 3) Show dense young for television, as results showed that 97.5% of the respondents watching television while those who don’t watch it accounted for 2.5%. 4) Emphasize that most of the respondents and their percentage 93.1% are looking for television content in the YouTube site. 5) Average interest to respondents about their involvement television sites on social network sites, it got percentage 63.9%. 6) Not affect the use of social network sites to watching television, it indicated that the results of statistical correlation relations there is no statistically significant differences between the rate of youth to use social network sites and the rate of exposure to television channels. (Author’s abstract)