Students' use of the Internet and gratification their religious information needs A field study of a sample of students at the University of Algiers 1 and 3

Abstract

This quantitative research conducted at the University of Algiers1 and 3, focused on selected university
students’ needs and usage of the Internet as well as the gratifications they obtained from it, represented by
the need for religious information, and based on the background of knowledge to study the uses and
gratifications, and what the approach provides, and after the field study . the study concluded after statistical
analysis of the results, through a program Spss, to results that are consistent with the hypotheses of the
approach, and the study found that , the need for religious information is among the motivations for students
to use the Internet and its characterized by density, with differences between users in terms of gender, and
university specialization.