The Role of Security Official Pages on Social Media in Enhancing National Security Among Youth: A Survey

Abstract

The study sought to identify the role of security pages on social networking sites in enhancing national security among Arab youth, using the media survey method, and relying on the questionnaire as a data collection tool by applying to a sample of 319 respondents from the followers of the security pages on social networking sites of Saudi, Egyptian and Emirati youth And the Bahraini, based on the theory of the richness of the media, and the study reached several results, the most prominent of which are the following: The high rate of respondents’ follow-up to security pages on social media, and the high rate of follow-up to issues related to national security raised on those pages, foremost among which were issues of cyber security and digital citizenship. It also found the high role of those pages in enhancing national security in its various dimensions and fields.