The effect of exposure to Facebook coverage of the Iran-Israeli war on Kurdish users’ perspective

Abstract

This study, which is entitled “The effect of exposure to Facebook coverage of the Iran-Israeli war on Kurdish users’ perspective”, aims to investigate the impacts, in which exposing to Facebook’s coverage of the Iran-Israel war; in particular the Kurdish accounts and pages, had on the Kurdish users’ perspectives. To achieve this aim, the study employed survey method and a questionnaire form to collect data from a convenience sample of participants, which constituted of 400 Facebook users, to investigate their attitudes and opinions in this regard. A Google form for the questionnaire was designed by the researchers and distributed among the participants. The researchers resorted to a descriptive approach to interpret the results and SPSS software to manage and analyze the data. The results of this study show that exposure to the Kurdish Facebook accounts/pages regarding the Iran-Israel news and information had impacts on the Kurdish users’ perspectives to the war, and what this war could lead to such as instability and panic, in addition to their viewpoints on the reasons and outcomes of the war.

Keywords: Facebook, news coverage, Iran-Israel war, Perspectives of social media users.