The Impact of Smartphones on Youth Political Culture in the Kurdistan Region

This research aims to know the impact of smartphones on the political culture of young people in the Kurdistan Region, especially knowing the extent and extent of the use of smartphones among the respondents and presenting the most prominent political topics of interest to the research sample, as well as accessing and interpreting the opinions of young people in the Kurdistan Region on published political topics. Smartphones and their repercussions on their political culture. This research is a type of descriptive study and uses the survey method in the manner of surveying the public by using a questionnaire form on a non-random, intentional sample of 200 respondents from smartphone users, distributed equally among the governorates of the region. For each governorate, samples were taken according to demographic variables, such as gender, age group, economic level, educational level, and governorate. In this research, the researchers reached a set of conclusions, the most important of which are: although Smartphones are primarily a tool and source of access for young people to political issues and have had a great impact on their level of political culture, political institutions, parties, and organizations have not been able to work seriously through smartphones to convey the correct political message to the youth within the framework of the principles and policies of their parties