Social Media sites as a space for societal conflicts in Libya" Facebook as a model "

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the most important areas of Libyan societal conflict through social media networks (Facebook) in the light of the media means richness. This study belongs to the survey studies that use the descriptive approach, and to achieve the objectives of the study, the data was collected by means of a questionnaire that was applied to a sample of (380) individuals from the respondents, in (Tripoli – Sebha – Benghazi) of Facebook users during the period from (14 March to 7 August 2020), and the study concluded to a number of results the most important of which are : The societal conflicts on Facebook appeared as a reflection of an unstable reality fraught with conflicts and polarization and as an extension of the existing conflict in the Libyan society, and that's because of the pressing political and economic climate and the need of Libyan societies to vent anger and frustration, with the Libyans not accustomed to dialogue and respecting the other's opinion, was the most important societal reason that turned Facebook into a battlefield, which made the expression of opinion and the disclosure of problems the most important goals of these conflicts, and the formation of views or reducing ambiguity and blurry about the issues and topics of the conflict came in the absence of a societal dialogue in which it is not allowed to express all opinions in the traditional media and the difficulty of access to it, this made the ease of access to Facebook and its presentation of all opinions the most important features that contributed to the spread of conflicts over it.