The role of parental participation in supporting the digital knowledge community: "Saudi community as a model"

The main target of this study is to discover the extent of Parental participation to their teenagers in the digital knowledge community, seeking to analyze the extent of parents teaching their teenagers the correct behavior of the digital knowledge community. Moreover, to discover the relationship between the age and education`s level of parents, their knowledge`s level with the applications of social media and the extent of their participation with their teenagers in the digital knowledge community. As well as knowing the differences of parental participation with their teenagers in the social media according to the gender. To answer the above questions, the researchers designed a measure of parents` participation with their teenager in the digital knowledge community. The study used a sample of (558) fathers and mothers of teenagers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Since checking its Validity and reliability, the study resulted in that most of its sample of the members know about applications of social media and extent of parents' teaching their teenagers the correct behavior in the digital knowledge community as a whole come (sometimes) with an equal degree of response. The study`s results clarified that there is no relation between age and education`s level of parents and extent of their participation to their teenagers in the digital knowledge community. And The study`s result clarified no differences with statically evidences in the participation to their teenagers, according to the gender (Father or Mother). Moreover, there is a direct relation between parents' knowledge level of applications of social media and their participation extent to their teenager in the digital knowledge community