The adoption and usage of smartphone media technologies as a source of news by Egyptian university students

Hamza Saad Mohamed Saad, Zayed University

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management

Publication Date

1-1-2019

Abstract

Copyright © 2019, IGI Global. This study examines the adoption and use of smartphones as a source of news by Egyptian university students. The study was applied on a random sample of 400 university students, whom already have smartphones. This study was guided by the uses and gratification theory to explore the use of smartphones among university students as a news resource. The study used quantitative research methodology in the form of a survey. Information was collected using a self-administrated questionnaire between March 2018 and April 2018. Findings showed that although Egypt is not one of the oil-rich countries, most of the university students are heavy smartphone users and the vast majority (87.5%) of them are accessing news via their smartphones. More importantly, the findings revealed that university students mainly used smartphones to get general information (47.5%), Egypt’s news (37.5%), entertainment (29.25%) and follow world’s news (27.75%). Finally, findings showed that (70%) of students use their smartphones to follow current affairs, while 67.5% said that smartphones helpe them to communicate with their friends.

ISSN

1947-9247

Publisher

IGI Global

Volume

10

Issue

3

First Page

35

Last Page

53

Disciplines

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Keywords

Egypt, Gratifications, Smartphone, Social Media News Sources, Uses

Scopus ID

85067069890

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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