The role of Egyptian newspaper websites in developing Egyptian youth's awareness of climate issues:

Document Type : Original Article

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Journalism lecture at the Faculty of Mass Communication - Akhbar Al-Youm Academy

Abstract

Egypt is one of the countries highly vulnerable to climate change, especially in the agricultural sector, which caused an imbalance in the food security balance, in addition to the increase in heat waves, dust storms and storms along the Mediterranean coast, and weather phenomena, which led to an increase in average temperatures. In light of the lack of sufficient interest in this national issue, especially with the acceleration of these changes, contrary to all expectations. In light of the increasing interest in this issue in recent times, this study came with the aim of examining the role of Egyptian newspaper websites in raising awareness of climate change issues among a sample of 200 Egyptian youth, based on the field survey methodology and the electronic questionnaire tool for data collection.
The study reached a set of results, the most important of which is that the Egyptian youth’s reliance on the Egyptian newspaper websites to obtain information on climate change increases in times of crisis. between agreeable and neutral and tends to agree, and the total standard deviation was (0.582). These ratios indicate that the contributions of Egyptian newspaper sites in raising awareness of climate issues were uneven. Climate change and its effects.
 

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