Open AccessThe Role of Social Media in Shaping the Trends of University Youth towards the Requirements of the Knowledge Economy
Author(s) -
Sameh Awadalla El-Sayad Ibrahim
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
xi'nan jiaotong daxue xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 21
ISSN - 0258-2724
DOI - 10.35741/issn.0258-2724.56.1.34
Subject(s) - knowledge economy , social media , information economy , business , quaternary sector of the economy , public relations , publishing , political science , economy , knowledge management , post industrial economy , economics , computer science , law
The study aims to identify social media's role in shaping university youth's attitudes towards the knowledge economy's requirements, and the study belongs to the descriptive studies. The study conducted a survey on a sample of 400 individual adolescents by using questionnaire form. The study concluded that social media has contributed to the development of the knowledge economy by being an important source for obtaining information about the knowledge economy, directly contributing to the formation of awareness among individuals, working to raise the level of knowledge economy culture among community members, and working on forming specific trends for the individual towards knowledge economy requirements. The most important participation mechanisms that it undertakes through social media to spread the requirements of the knowledge economy is to interact with pages interested in transmitting news of the knowledge economy, publishing pictures, posts or news related to the knowledge economy in society, commenting on issues related to the knowledge economy. The most important obstacles to the requirements of the knowledge economy through social media are represented in the following: the lack of mechanisms for developing knowledge behaviors among young people, the lack of awareness of the knowledge economy culture in action and content, the lack of proficiency in the use of information and communication technology, the violation of the intellectual property rights of knowledge, the destruction, destruction or theft of electronic websites.