Online News Use Habits of University of Jordan Students

Q4 Social Sciences

Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI:10.35516/hum.v50i5.1300

Suha S. Al Subaihi

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Objectives: Young people's news consumption has evolved due to increased online news media and the shift to online education during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study investigates changes in news habits among Jordanian youth. Methods: The study is based on a quantitative survey of students (N=147) enrolled at the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, aged between 18 and 30 years, using voluntary response sampling. The survey questionnaire was conducted in order to explore their news consumption habits and media preferences, with a highlight on social media as a way to acquire and share news items. Results: The results provide that the vast majority of students (69.4%) are news consumers, although with different usage habits and consumption patterns. Nevertheless, the findings revealed that the internet is the most used path to get news, with news websites and social media platforms as the most preferred. The majority of surveyed students (74.2%) share news via social media, mostly with family members and close friends. Moreover, gender in this study was found to have a major influence on news type preferences. Sports news is the type of news that most male students in the sample were interested in following, whereas most female students were interested in following societal news. Conclusions: This study established that university students are followers of news, national and international, and that there is a rise in the importance of online news, particularly social media and non-mainstream news websites among young adults. Results suggest that young people are also news sharers.

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约旦大学学生使用网络新闻的习惯

目的：在 Covid-19 大流行期间，由于在线新闻媒体的增加和向在线教育的转变，年轻人的新闻消费发生了变化。本研究调查了约旦青年新闻习惯的变化。研究方法本研究采用自愿回答抽样法，对约旦安曼约旦大学 18 至 30 岁的在校学生（N=147）进行了定量调查。调查问卷旨在探讨他们的新闻消费习惯和媒体偏好，重点关注社交媒体作为获取和分享新闻的一种方式。调查结果结果显示，绝大多数学生（69.4%）是新闻消费者，但使用习惯和消费模式各不相同。然而，调查结果显示，互联网是获取新闻的最常用途径，其中新闻网站和社交媒体平台最受青睐。大多数受访学生（74.2%）通过社交媒体分享新闻，主要是与家人和好友分享。此外，本研究还发现性别对新闻类型偏好有很大影响。体育新闻是样本中大多数男生有兴趣关注的新闻类型，而大多数女生则有兴趣关注社会新闻。结论本研究表明，大学生是国内和国际新闻的关注者，网络新闻，尤其是社交媒体和非主流新闻网站在年轻人中的重要性正在上升。研究结果表明，年轻人也是新闻分享者。

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Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

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207

期刊介绍： Dirasat is an international peer-refereed research journal published in seven specialized series by the Deanship of Academic Research, University of Jordan. Issues of Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences are published tri-annually. Articles submitted are reviewed according to the highest standards by scientists specialized in their fields. The articles are written in Arabic or English.