Creating Awareness through social networks in the context of media time - An analytical study

Document Type : Original Article

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Teacher of pedagogy Faculty of Education - Tanta University

Abstract

The current study deals with the issue of awareness in the media and across social networks- an analytical study of the content of some face book pages. Started from a major question, which is; Does social media control the formation and creation of awareness without our awareness, and how? Through the results of the study, it was found that there are more deadly and ferocious hidden wars that target a persons mind and intellect in terms of his values, beliefs and ideas. wars of misleading and falsification of human awareness by social networking sites that promote false ideas and information to a wide audience around The world according to a virtual reality different from the real reality .consciousness is false when the individuals ideas from his point of view and concepts are identical and compatible with the physical reality of life around him ,based on the fact that consciousness is the individuals perception of the social reality , apperception derived from the values and culture of this reality that is reflected in his trends and behaviors. In order to achieve the aim of the study , the study relied on the descriptive and analytical method, and one of its tools is the content analysis from to analyze the content of some  face book pages and their decisive role in creating real awareness compatible with the physical reality of life around us. The study reached several results, most notably: social media is a double- edged sword for making real and false awareness and its most prominent strategies in this context: fabricating reality and falsifying it with illusions that are paradoxical, flattening minds and flooding them with trivial, misleading and mind  blowing materials, peoples questioning their assumptions, and perpetuating a culture of justification, dependence and surrender. The most prominent results of the study are in its field and analytical part:" the smart Education" page is ranked first in terms of follow up and spread, followed by " a conscious" page, then our" project page . With the mind we start ", followed by the page of "ideas that change your life", then" ideas against bullets". The current study recommends the necessity of building individual and collective awareness alike through several mechanisms of interaction and communication through social networks , as well as cooperation of community  institutions to raise awareness  of the problems of media time and the risks of social media networks, activating educational and educational channels to develop awareness of the pros and cons of social networks

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Volume 85, Issue 85 - Serial Number 85
مناهج وطرق التدریس ( اللغة العربیة- الإنجلیزیة – الفرنسیة – الریاضیات – العلوم- الفنون- الاقتصاد المنزلی- التجاری ... )
May 2021
Pages 813-877
  • Receive Date: 10 November 2020
  • Revise Date: 25 November 2020
  • Accept Date: 03 December 2020