Abbas Fadhel Aljuboori , Abdulnaser Fashakh , Oguz Bayat
الملخص الانجليزي
The rapid increase in the era of the technological revolution and the Internet, especially the social media,
have created a new reality in the daily life of the societies in general and of the university students in
particular, so this new reality without any doubt imposes on us the general effects of this increasing
use of social media has affected all areas and societies The effects are positive and negative. These social
means have become a vast space for exchanging ideas, making new friends, proposals, sources of information, business and e-shopping. In this study, we have decided to shed light on the academic, political
and economic effects of the study by comparing them to the general effects of social media by looking at
the demographic variables of Iraqi university students. Three universities (Kerbela University in the
Middle Euphrates, UOITC University in the capital Baghdad and Tikrit University in western Iraq) where
we considered spatial, cultural and social differences. Data collected through a survey consisting of four
categories, General Influences, Academic Influences, Political Influences and Influences Business (distributed over 40 questions) We tried to cover most of the students’ common uses of social media and
their impact on them. The questionnaire was distributed through 100 questionnaires to each university.
The total number of participants was (201) distributed on (77) participants from Karbala University, (50)
participants from Tikrit University and (74) participants from the University of Information and
Communication Technology (UOITC).
عبدالناصر مطشر فشاخ | Abdulnaser Mutashar Fashakh | 2442