The Influences of Social Media on Changing Social Values of Women in The Kurdistan Region.

Abstract

  The main problem of this study, which is entitled (The effects of social media on changing social values of women in the Kurdish region) is that there is a vague and lack of understanding of the effects in which the use of social media platforms haS on the women in the Kurdistan Region. As such, the study attempts to achieve several aims specifically understanding and examining the influence of the use of social media platforms on changing social values of the employed women in the Kurdistan region, in addition to exploring the most values in which could be affected by these platforms. In terms of the approaches, this study is both quantitative and qualitative, as the data that were collected from the tools, are both numbers and information. Moreover, the researcher has explained and interpreted the collected data to provide a deeper understanding of the topic and results. The structure and topic of the study have required the use of survey method and for data collection the researcher resorted to the use of questionnaires forms, which were sent to the sample of the study(1088 participants) online through Google form and hardcopy, from all the four provinces of Kurdistan Region (Erbil, Sulaimani, Duhok and Halabja).Furthermore, the size of the sample was determined based on the data that the researcher gained from statistics authority in the KRG. The figure is (143560) female employees in the offices of the Kurdistan Region, of which (0.5%) is taken.  The most obvious finding of the study is that social media has had a significant impact on changing social values ​​among women in the Kurdistan Region (42.2%) and most of this impact is negative.