The dependence of Egyptian university youth on the Threads platform in obtaining news about the events in Gaza 2023 –  A field study

Mohamed Bedeir Mohamed, Soad

doi:10.21608/jsb.2025.388544.1930

The dependence of Egyptian university youth on the Threads platform in obtaining news about the events in Gaza 2023 – A field study

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Soad Mohamed bedeir Mohamed

Al Azhar university - Faculty of Mass Communication - department of radio and television

10.21608/jsb.2025.388544.1930

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the extent to which university youth rely on the Threads platform to obtain news about the events in Gaza, in addition to knowing the motives and objectives of their dependence on it, and the various effects resulting from their dependence on it within the framework of a field study using the survey methodology on a deliberate sample of (450) individuals of young people in Egyptian universities who rely on the Threads platform to obtain news about the events in Gaza.
The study found that 28.2% of respondents rely heavily on the Threads platform as a source of news about Gaza news, while the percentage of those who rely on it to an average degree reached 32.9%, while the percentage of those who rely on it to a weak degree reached 38.9%, and the pages of activists from the Gaza Strip through the Threads platform came at the forefront of the pages on which respondents rely to obtain news about Gaza. Followed by the pages of friends and acquaintances, then the pages of the news channels in the traditional media, and that more than half of the study sample interacts with Gaza news through the Threads platform at multiple levels, as 74.7% of them achieve a certain level of interaction with it between regular in its interaction and irregular, and the likes and comments topped the forms of respondents' interaction with Gaza news through the Threads platform, Respondents' confidence in Gaza news published through the Threads platform increased by 79.5%, and the high level of cognitive, emotional and behavioral effects resulting from respondents' reliance on the Threads platform to obtain news about Gaza events was also outweighed.

Keywords

Main Subjects

The new media

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