The Role of Facebook in Creating Mental Images on Social Problems in KRI

Abstract

Nowadays, because of the revolution of communication and information technology, social media platforms have impacted on creating the mental images on social problems in Kurdistan Region of Iraq, as elsewhere, both positively and negatively too. The rise of new media tools has given social media platforms more role in creating and broadcasting media content in which Facebook can be mentioned as the one that has occupied the top of the list in KRI. The objective of this study in to discover the role that Facebook is playing in creating mental images to the public audiences on social problems through spreading information and rising awareness. The study surveying students of Arts College at the university of Salahaddin-Erbil as sample. It has used random methods to target 112 students by filling survey forms. The methodology, moreover, is a descriptive one in which it analyzes the collected data from filled survey forms to describe the role that Facebook has in creating the mental images on social problems. The study has been conducted and concluded that in general, the Facebook had a negative role on its users in KRI; it also had a role on university students to create mental images on social problems. The results would show the significance of the study in which it can illustrate the role that social media playing in having impact on society individuals, through spreading information and rising awareness.