The Uses of Yarmouk University Students for blogs and the Achieved Gratifications: "Survey Study"
Hatem Alawaneh and Khalaf Tahat, Journalism Department, Faculty of Mass Communication,Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.
Mahmoud abd-alghani, Mass Communication Department, Faculty of Arts, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt.
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Abstract
The study aims to identify The Uses of Yarmouk University Students for blogs and the Achieved Gratifications and to know the habits and patterns for their uses.The study used descriptive and analytical survey method to. The sample (200) was selected randomly, Researcher relied on (questionnaire) to collect data, and the study found a number of results, the following was the most important:
1.Results showed that (57.1%) of the surveyed respondents use blogs always, who it came in the first , followed by those who use occasionally blogs at a rate (22.9%) in the second arrangement, and finally (20%) use it rarely, who came in third place.
2. The results indicated that (25.14%) of the total surveyed respondents follow the blogs because it is included (variety of topics and news) spread between (26.96%) males and (21.17%) of the female.
3. Results showed that identification of information and useful skills came in the first on the list of the motives of the surveyed respondents from the use of blogs by up to (21.71%).
4.it assures the importance of blogs as an outlet where the user can express his opinion and his point of view freely without any restrictions, and in the second was "reinforced my views through my discussions with others" at a rate of (14.3%).
Key words: uses, blogs, gratifications.