عنوان المقال عربي
تداعيات التلوث المعلوماتي على الأمن الفكري لشباب المنطقة الشرقية في المملكة العربية السعودية
Abstract
Information pollution is one of the topics of great importance as one of the threats to the intellectual security of society, by virtue of its link to knowledge and its issues in all areas of life from culture, education, education, security and others, so the issue of information pollution and its discussion has become an urgent necessity that no two disagree on. Hence, this study came as an attempt to reveal the repercussions of information pollution on the intellectual security of young people. The importance of the study stems from the fact that it discusses a topic characterized by a scarcity of writings about it, and the researchers hope that this study will serve as the seed for more studies on the topic. The study aimed to reveal the repercussions of information pollution on the intellectual security of the Saudi youth in the Eastern Province by identifying the basic concepts of information pollution and its forms, studying the relationship between information pollution and intellectual security among young people and the motives of young people towards using information, assessing the level of awareness of Saudi youth about the phenomenon of information pollution. To achieve this has been distributing an electronic questionnaire to a random sample of young people of varying ages, educational levels and work environments, where the questionnaire was widely distributed through the use of the application (WhatsApp) and other means of communication to measure their level of awareness of the concept of information pollution and identify its causes from their point of view and its repercussions on their intellectual security. The number of young people who interacted with the researchers and answered the questionnaire questions reached (151) young men and women, which is the sample that was relied upon in the objective analysis and access to the results, the most prominent of which are: Poor awareness of the phenomenon of information pollution among the studied sample, where the results of the study resulted in that 54% of the sample members have no knowledge of information pollution. The study also proved that unreliable websites are among the most sources of information pollution, followed respectively by social networks, satellite channels and audiovisual media by (24%), and perhaps the most prominent repercussions of information pollution for the studied sample are the construction of a fragile culture that is not real by (43%).
Keywords
Information - Information Contamination - Intellectual Security - Youth
Recommended Citation
Jawish, Omaima Kamal Al-Din Hassan and Salama, Afnan Abed
(2025)
"The repercussions of information pollution on the intellectual security of the youth of the Eastern Province In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,"
Uruk for Humanities: Vol. 16:
Iss.
4, Article 33.
Available at:
https://muthuruk.mu.edu.iq/journal/vol16/iss4/33
