The relationship between interactivity on news website and social media and metacognitive skills of their users

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Assistant professor – Educational Media Department – Faculty of Specific Education – Zagazig University

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There have been many recent attempts among Western scholars to analyse how people think and their cognitive processes once they are exposed to news stimuli and their response. However, those attempts are very limited in Arabic research literature. This study attempts to examine the reciprocal relationship between the interactivity on news websites and social media on one side, and metacognitive skills which are among essential components of intelligent behaviours and information processing. This study is a quantitative analytical study, in which the researcher used questionnaires to collect information from a stratified sample of 350 respondents. The researcher found that availability of interactive features on the websites do not necessarily predict higher metacognitive skills. Instead, it is the degree of interactivity and the quality of usage of the interactive features that predict higher meta cognitive skills. The study also showed that the level of education is not related to the degree of interactivity that users exercise on websites

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