The Role of Social Media Networks in Enriching the Arabic Digital Content in Humanities and Sciences from the Perspective of Jordanian Universities’ Students

Sawsan  Badrakhan; Jamal  Taha; Talal   Haimur

doi:10.35516/hum.v49i1.1685

Authors

Sawsan Badrakhan Al-Ahliyya Amman University
Jamal Taha Al-Ahliyya Amman University
Talal Haimur Al-Ahliyya Amman University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v49i1.1685

Keywords:

Social media networks, digital content, digital Arabic content, obstacles, Jordanian universities

Abstract

The study aims to identify the role of social media networks in enriching and supporting the Arabic digital content from the perspective of students at the faculties of humanities and sciences in the Jordanian universities and the possible obstacles. A questionnaire of (25) items was designed and administered electronically via WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook to (488) students at the University of Jordan and Al-Ahliyya Amman University. The study reveals that the role of social media networks in enriching and supporting the Arabic Digital Content is significant while the obstacles of such enrichment and support is at a medium level. The present study does not show any statistically significant differences between the means that could be attributed to variables such as gender, university, faculty or academic year.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Abboud, R.(2018). Towards an Arab digital content industry strategy, T4, Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies.

Abubaker, H., Salah, K., Al-Muhairi, H., Bentiba, A. (2015). Digital Arabic Content: Challenges and Opportunities, International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Research (ICTRC).

ADU Enterprise and ESCWA to Launch. (2014).Digital Arabic Content Competition, Internet: http://www.adu.ac.ae/adu-enterprise-and-escwa-to-launch-digital-arabic-content-competition.html#.VNBqz2iUc3k, [November, 21, 2020].

Al-Hafiz, N. (2019). The Reality of Arabic Digital Content on the Web, the tenth annual conference of the Arabic Language Academy in Damascus, entitled: The reality of the Arabic language of our time, held on 26/28/3/2019 in the complex of the Arabic language in Damascus, Syria.

Al-Hawi, R.(2019).The role of social networks (Facebook) in enriching Arabic content, the proceedings of the Digital Arabic Content Conference and the mechanisms to enrich it, The Arabic Language Computing and Enrich Arabic Content Online, 1(1), 103-118.

Al-Shawbakeh, Y.& Al-Fadel, M. (2017). Attitudes of the University of Jordan Students Towards Social Networking Sites as Information Sources in the Educational - Learning Process, Dirasat : Educational Sciences, 44 (2) (Appendix 3), 315-337.

Alshoaibi, M. (2019). Social Media and Its Impact on Arab Youth Identity. Review of European Studies, 11(1), 1-13.

Arabic Digital Content.(2013).The Arabic Language: Our National Identity, Internet: http://ict.client-acumenadagency.com/page/arabic-digital-content, [December. 4, 2020].

Bamflah, F. (2011). Google's Role in Publishing and Preserving Arabic Digital Content, Arabic Digital Content Online Conference, held from 3-5/10/2011, King Abdulaziz University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Beazan, M., Sabour,S. (2019). The digital depots of Algerian universities and their role in supporting Arab academic content on the internet: Analysis, Proceedings of the Digital Arabic Content Conference and Mechanisms for Enriching it, Arabic Language Computing and Enriching Arabic Content on the Internet, 1(1), 135-155.

Chen, X.(2009).Analysis for Digital Content Industry Value Chain, IEEE International Conference on Network Infrastructure and Digital Content, 349-352, Beijing

Connect Arab Summit. (2012). Digital Arabic Content: Background paper, Connect Arab Summit: Doha, Qatar.

Deek,G.(2019).Development of Digital Arabic Content: Incubation Requirements and Training, United Nations UN, ESCWA.

Faraj, A.(2009). Towards the design of an Arabic electronic portal for academic digital content, a scientific paper presented to the work of the 20th Arab Federation of Libraries and Information (I know) entitled "Towards a new generation of information systems and specialists: A Vision for the Future", Casablanca - Morocco.

Gris,A.(2015).Obstacles to Integrating Technology in to Education (Blended Learning), Doctoral Thesis Unpublished, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Guo,X., Xu,f., Xiao, Z., Yuan, H. & Yang, X.(2019). Winning the war on Terror: Using Social Networking Tools and GTD to Analyse the Regularity of Terrorism Activities, International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), 10(4), 112-135.

Rashid, H. (2020). The Arabic Language in Social Medias' era, Utopia y praxis latinoamericana. 1(25), 356-366.

Taibi, M. and Sabkhawi, K.(2019). Obstacles to the development of digital Arabic content and the strategy of strengthening its industry in the Arab world. The proceedings of the Digital Arabic Content Conference and the mechanisms to enrich it. Association for Arabic Language Computing and Enrichment of Arabic Content on the Internet, 1(1), 119-134.

The Arab Weekly. (2020). Social media use by youth is rising across the Middle East, [online]: https://thearabweekly.com/social-media-use-youth-rising-across-middle-east.