Audience Use of Dual Screens and its Relationship to Following Important News Events

Abstract

This field research deals with the problem of the public's increasing exposure to dual screens, that is, the use of two screens at the same time, and the relationship of that duplication to its follow-up of important events. Other sub-questions branched out from it, and three hypotheses represented all the axes of the research problem.

The researcher took the theoretical rooting of the concept of dual screens, as a new concept in the communicative process, especially in the Arabic library, and its relationship to important events and issues that benefit the user audience, and also addressed the motives that drive the public to use double screens and the reliability of this type of use.

The type of research was descriptive, using the survey method, and the research community is the university professors working in Iraqi universities and continuing to serve for the academic year 2020-2021. Three universities were selected: one in the north, the other in the middle, and the last in the south, and 100 respondents were chosen from each university, with a total of 300 respondents who were the total sample members.

The research reached certain results, most notably: completing the information that the audience lacks, and providing a topic for discussion to allow the user to integrate with others, is one of the most prominent motives for use, and that the Facebook platform is one of the most used platforms, and that the mobile phone contains more details and information, and that the follow-up Important news events from the television screen because it is a larger and clearer screen, and the use of two double screens is because some information is not present in one of them.