"The Use of Social Media by Iraqi University Students and Its Impact on Their Educational Values within University Settings"

Abstract

Our research deals with a topic that has been referred to in several places in social, media, educational and psychological studies because of its societal importance and being a cornerstone in the system of societal values, and the subject of our research included the Iraqi university community and the importance of university values in it, especially in social networking sites and the impact they play on the recipients and users of these sites in the topics, opinions and ideas that they publish through their pages and through their groups, including those related to university values and their impact on university students.

The research consists of three main axes, the first is the introduction and the methodological framework, the second includes the theoretical framework and an explanation of the issues raised in it, namely social networking sites and university values, while the last axis was devoted to the practical side and presented the results of the questionnaire, which included (100) students from the departments of the Faculty of Applied Arts / Middle Technical University, and then the conclusions and recommendations were presented.