Journal of Media Studies and Research

The use of Internet technology and its applications for public relations requires a deep understanding and clear understanding by senior management and public relations officials of the roles that this technology can play in supporting and completing public relations functions such as public opinion and the spread of news and events of organizations and institutions. Further dimensions, management of the organization\'s reputation and image. Therefore, the problem of the current research started from the question (how much is the use of public relations practitioners in Iraqi universities for social networking networks to perform their functions), so that the research aims to achieve the following objectives:-
1. Identify the extent to which public relations practitioners use social networks.
2. Disclosure of the most social networks used by public relations practitioners..
3. Highlight the facilities available to public relations practitioners to access social networks..
4. Uncovering public relations practitioners\' belief that the employment of social networks will make gains in the performance of public relations functions. The researcher used the survey method to reach the desired results. The survey questionnaire was used as a tool for collecting preliminary evidence. The research concluded that the practitioners prefer smart phones to access the social networks. Facebook also came from the most social sites used by public relations practitioners to perform their functions. The results showed that there is no agreement among the sample that Iraqi universities provide the necessary opportunities and facilities to access.

The problem of this research stems from the major question: what are the methods of dealing with opinion articles in the migrating Arabs' newspapers towards the interference of the international forces in the internal affairs of the Arab countries ? A number of sub-questions which cover all aspects of the research , the research aims to achieve a set of objectives, The research is considered as a descriptive research it uses a descriptive analytical survey method to achieve the objectives of the research , the researcher used a content analysis tool analyze the methods used by opinion articles in the sample newspapers addresses the topic of research.
The research came to asset of findings and conclusions as , the subject of the international forces' interventions in the internal affairs of the Arab countries which received much more attention of the opinion articles' writers in a three sample newspapers through (227) newspapers articles' opinion of the analysis , the opinion articles in the sample newspaper used (8) different styles in dealing with the concerned topic of research ,the methods that have been identified include (91) topics or sub-category item dealt with the subject in question in many ways, giving the opinion articles in the newspapers mentioned newspapers a particular importance to the presentation of information and then with the less attention to other methods, the opinion articles focusing on the sample newspapers regarding the international forces interfering in the internal affairs of Arab countries is concentrated on two countries such as united states of America and Russia as its concentration regarding their interventions in the affairs of Arab Countries as Syria in the first priority and on other Arab countries with degree of less interest.

Infographic journalism is a form of journalism that has spread in the media and websites that aims to attract the reader, and it represents information graphics journalism that reflects the increasing role of using digital data in the production and distribution of information in the era of the digital revolution, and reflects the increasing interaction between content producers (journalists). And many other diverse fields such as design, computer science and statistics, and thus it means pictorial data, as it can be called informational designs, as the most prominent metodological approaches that were invented by scholars were monitored and studied by scholars in order to investigate the infographic product and clarify its most important implicit levels, and its possible meanings, both within the spaces Closed, or on the interfaces of their open counterparts, Infographic makes infographic a subject of debate and interest in several scientific disciplines, especially art history, archeology, anthropology, folklore, linguistics, aesthetics, criminology, psychology, psychoanalysis, information and communication science, and sociology in its various disciplines, urban, cultural, educational, The artistic and visual, for various reasons, the press today is in serious need of this art after the technical developments taking place, especially since it is considered the most important advantages of the press of the age and the future.

Media coverage by transferring images that a person with a disability lives without falsity or distorting and transmitting their sporting and cultural activities, for example, is a way to confirm that they are people who, like others, are able to give intellectual and physical support. To achieve of adapting to different groups of society, they must be motivated to prove their capabilities and strive to establish the principle of Social solidarity cooperation .
The research was based on asking one main question: (what is the extent of the interest of the Iraqi media in people with special needs from the point of view of those in charge of them, and this research is descriptive research and relied on a survey of those in charge of services for people with special needs in the homes designated for their care through the questionnaire form.
The research reached several conclusions, including: that the satellite channels came first in the interest in the issues of the disabled followed by electronic news sites, and that the independent media were more than the partisan and official media in covering the needs of the disabled and the media coverage was within the radio arts of the programs followed by television investigations media coverage is housing and then food, which indicates the extent of their need comfortable housing. The arrangement of the agencies to provide assistance to people with special needs is local civil society organizations, then the party is due to the higher coverage. Yeh means the media have not been able to find solutions to the problems of the disabled and could not stimulate the concerned authorities effectively in helping people with special needs.

The research deals with a field study on the reliability of Facebook in transmitting news of security incidents from the point of view of the people of Baghdad. Facebook and the rest of the means are a political, social and cultural platform, and it is based on the fact that the personal pages available on the site help to achieve social interaction based on Another rule is homogeneity in terms of interests, because the data available on the page achieves communication that feeds the media content to discuss the most prominent issues that were difficult to reach in the past, especially in the transmission of news of security incidents and the high rate of their use and competition between them in the transmission of news of security incidents and their developments on an up-to-date basis, The competition between them in providing analyzes, interpretations and comments on events through their various contents.
The researcher sought, by drawing a stratified, multi-stage random sample from the city of Baghdad from Al-Karkh and Al-Rusafa sides, totaling 285 respondents, to identify the role of Facebook in providing the Iraqi public with information related to security incidents and the extent of the public's reliance on it as a media tool. The Facebook Credibility Scale was prepared in transmitting news of security incidents from theoretical literature and previous studies. The validity of the measures was verified by apparent validity and constructive validity indicators. The reliability of the scale was also confirmed by the Alpha Cronbach coefficient of internal consistency.

The reader have become today much more aware and conscious of what before published or broadcast through various media, whether conventional or new media do not pass him the news of miss-leading, false or fabricated easily. because of technological developments that got to the media, information and new media mobility news quickly away from the grip of the governments there have been characterized by a sense of freedom, give opinions and participatory as in social networking-sites, blogging and news site in all forms and types even become a source turn to the readers to figure out what is going on around them of the course of events and issues.. the imposition of this great development in term ofv the transference of news and the news spread quickly to the need to ensure the credibility of news information and the validity and the trust of its sources .
This study addressed several issues, the most impotent, is the reliability of the Iraqi reader as published on the pages of the social networking-sites and the standards of credibility has and levels ,and whether new media and private networking-sites have become an alternative source of news and information from traditional media?
The researcher used the survey method of a random sample of the public of the city of Baghdad on karh side and rusafa side included 300 people , 72% of them browsing networking sites on an ongoing basis and per day .
One of the most important findings of the study that the Iraqi public would prefer the traditional media as a source of news on social networking-sites despite of their awarance of news and information on its pages ,but they do not trust them always ,they are sometimes devoid of minute details and are not clear and might lie behind a hidden agenda .

Autism is one of the vague diseases that has massive consequences society . Although modern sciences have made rapid and remarkable advances in many spheres , no medical treatment has, so far, thought to be effective . Several factors may influence the development of autism and it is often accompanied by repetitive behavior disorders , delayed growth, cognitive impairments and difficulty in speech communication.
To deal with the problem of autistic children who need special care, many psychological, educational and social studies have been conducted and many rehabilitation and teaching centres have been opened . Within this context , the social media sites, or more precisely , the digital media sites , can play a significant role in making the people more conscious of the disease and how to deal with it . This can be done by presenting messages of educational content and by showing training videos addressed to teachers and parents instructing them how to further develop their sons\' skills . Parents can interact with the programmes through their comments, participation or even signs.
The present study is , therefore , an attempt to provide an answer to such a major question as : Are social media sites powerful enough to develop the autistic children\'s skills through their pages , and if so , to what extent ?
The study aims primarily at showing how much benefit can the parents of autistic children get from their interaction with the electronic messages on the social media sites .
To achieve this objective, a qualitative approach has been proposed together with the application of a descriptive , analytical method . An electronic questionnaire form has been constructed as a tool of the research . This form is supposed to be used by the interested parents through their face book pages . Some of the pages are Iraqi and some others are Lebanese , Libyan and Jordanian .