Egyptian public's solicitation of information during natural disasters And its relationship to satisfaction with the performance of traditional and digital media

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Lecturer at the Faculty of Information, Cairo University

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The study seeks to monitor and analyze the information-seeking behavior of the Egyptian public about the natural disasters that occur around it, and its relationship to the level of public satisfaction with the performance of both traditional and digital media in covering and dealing with natural disasters, by applying the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey, in the light of employing the information-seeking theory.
The study relied on the survey method and the comparative method. And that was applied to a deliberate sample of (300) respondents from the age of 18 years and over, using the questionnaire sheet, and the study reached a set of results; The most important of them:

Digital media came in the first place as one of the most important sources of information about natural disasters with a percentage of 74.3%, while traditional media came with a percentage of 25.7%.
Social networking sites came in the lead with a percentage of 68% as the first source from which the respondents learned for the first time about the occurrence of the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey, followed by the Internet sites with a large relative difference of 11%.
The private Egyptian satellite channels were among the most important traditional media that the respondents are keen to follow, while “Facebook” topped the list of the most preferred social networks for respondents to rely on to obtain information and news about natural disasters.

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