The Algerian Public’s dependency on the Media and Social Media Platforms to Build Attitudes on the Russian-Ukrainian War - A Field Study-

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the media that the Algerian public depend on to follow the Russian-Ukrainian war, It also tried to investigate the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects of this dependency, The study used the survey method, It used the questionnaire tool applying to a sample of 500 individuals from  the Algerian public, The study concluded with several results the most important of which are The social networking sites topped the list as the sources the public relied on most, The results showed that the Algerian public is very attentive to the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war,.The results also indicated that there is a statistically significant relationship between exposure to news content in the media and the effects of dependence on the media in identifying about Russian-Ukrainian War.