The Role of Social Media on Adolescent Consciousness

Abstract

The current research aims to reveal the role of the use of social media in the level of awareness of adolescent students in the tenth and eleventh grades of (Koysanjak) schools in general and according to the axes of (language, culture, history, geography, and the Islamic and Christian religion) according of important variables. A number of items was obtained through an open questionnaire for specialists in the research topics, and then face validity and content validity were extracted by presenting the scale to a group of experts, and reliability was found. The scale was distributed to a sample of (301) teenage students, male and female, distributed among (10) schools within the city center of (Koysanjak). The results showed that the sample members in general had a low level of awareness, especially in the (historical and religious) axis, there are statistically significant differences between them, according to the number of hours of using electronic devices, and students who used electronic devices for more than six hours per day exhibited lower awareness compared to those who used them for fewer hours. The results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences between them according to each of the variables (gender, ownership of their own contemporary electronic devices, and number of programs used). Finally, The researchers presented a number of recommendations and proposals according the research results.