The use of interactive media applications and its relationship to social intelligence towards Deaf and dumb students

     The study aimed to identify the relationship between the use of interactive media applications on the Internet and social intelligence among deaf and dumb students, and the most important perceptions of the respondents of their experiences of ritual and utilitarian uses and ways of their interaction with interactive media spaces and the extent to which this relates to social intelligence, while determining the level of social intelligence through interactive media applications among the respondents, and identifying Whether the level of social intelligence of the respondents differs according to (gender, specialization, the volume of use to these applications, and the study group), and the researcher relied on the comprehensive survey method for a sample of (34) male and female deaf and dumb students enrolled in the Faculty of Specific Education, Tanta University In my department (Home Economics - Educational Technology), the data collection tools included a questionnaire in the interview, and a measure of social intelligence through interactive media applications (prepared by the researcher), and the study reached a set of results, including:
- The (WhatsApp) application ranks the interactive media applications that the respondents follow according to its importance to them, then the (Facebook) application in the second rank, then the (Instagram) application, while the (Snapchat) and (electronic newspapers) and (Skype) applications come in the last rank.
- There is a statistically significant relationship between the intensity of the respondents' interaction with the different contents using interactive media applications and their social intelligence rate.
- There are statistically significant differences between deaf and dumb students, the research sample, in their level of social intelligence according to the variables (specialization, volume of use of interactive media applications), while there were no statistically significant differences according to the variables (gender, study group).