The Effect Of Social Media On Voting Behavior Iraqi Kurdistan Region
Abstract
Student Name: Soran Jameel Aziz, Sawin Sadullah
This study investigates the impact of social media on voting behavior, as the researcher took the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study, because it is considered a unique experience in the Middle East as the only internationally recognized region in the area, in addition to that it contains a government independent of the central Iraqi government.
The political process in the region has always aroused the interest of many researchers and writers from different countries of the world, due to the complex political relationship of the region with the Iraqi federal government and the governments of neighboring countries.
Speaking of the political process, the elections in the region were and still the focus of the attention of observers from neighboring countries and the international community, due to the presence of more than one political force in the region represented by multiple parties, and its aspires, so the election period in Kurdistan has become a breathtaking period, as everyone is waiting for the results that will determine the victory of a particular party and the percentage of its control of power within the regional government, which will reflect the future nature of relations with this government.
It is known that humanity is in the age of technology, speed and spread of social media, which has become one of the basics of the lives of most humans, as some platforms have gained wide resonance and fame by gaining the attention of many political figures such as Twitter platform, which has reached the point of declaring achievements or military strikes through it.
This study focuses on clarifying the impact of social media on voting behavior in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, explaining the reasons that allowed these applications or programs to have this effect, in addition to the nature of the relationship between these platforms and the political process, in order to identify and analyze this impact.
During analysis, it was noted from Table (4.14) that there is a significant positive statistical correlation between (voting behavior and social media) which is (0.829) and that the significance value is 0.000 and is less than 0.05. This indicates acceptance of the second hypothesis because of a positive correlation between (voting behavior and social media).
