" The extent of the effectiveness of social networking sites in shaping attitudes towards participation in political action(Facebook me)

Abstract

The research aims to find out the effectiveness of social networking sites in shaping the attitudes of the disabled towards participation in political work. Through the use of a standardized questionnaire form that contained a sufficient number of questions and variables that cover the research questions, and the research community consisted of persons with limbs and hearing disabilities, due to their ability to read and understand the form and answer the questions. The form on the sample personally on a sample of (50) single persons during the period extending from 1/12/2021 to 5/1/2022 AD, and the research reached the most important results, that (40%) of the sample members comment on some political activities, and ( 74%) of the sample members explain that the political motives for their use of Facebook to follow up on the electoral programs of the candidates, and the results of the research reveal that (76%) of the sample members benefit from Facebook in providing them with the opportunity for everyone to raise any issue Political in front of public opinion, and the results show that the reasons for respondents’ dependence on Facebook in following up on political issues and current events enables them to interact with a wider audience of varying cultures with a high rate of (82%) of the sample members.