Deaf children uses of social network sites and their gratifications

ABSTRACT

Aims: To identify the uses for deaf children social sites and their gratification, and identify the rate of use of the study sample social sites, as well as topics and attributes favored by these children on social sites, as well as to identify the motives for use and gratifications for those deaf children, and to identify the impact of those sites on social relations have, belong to study current studies descriptive approach used media survey, and have been applied to study a sample of deaf children in [Cairo, Monofiya] ranging in age from [12 to 18], and the study sample of 200 deaf children. Results: The more social sites used by deaf children is Facebook, then Youtube and Tweeter, the results showed that the study sample use social sites more than once a day by 51.5% and they are using those sites in the length of time ranging from less than an hour to more than three hours. Results showed the existence of a correlation between rates of uses of deaf children social sites and their gratifications at the level of moral 0.001, followed by the value of the Pearson 0.583, which has a direct correlation of any whenever the rate of use social sites, the more gratifications accruing from such use. The results proved that the use of the study sample social sites for extended periods of time does not affect the links with social realism. There is also a function of statistical differences between the region the study sample rates and deaf children social sites, at the level of moral 0.000, the value of 17.3, and degrees of freedom 198, and for children living in urban areas by an average of my account 2.75, in return for 2.55 for children belonging to the countryside