أزمة الهوية الثقافية الوطنية في الفضاء الإعلامي الجديد : دراسة نوعية

الملخص EN

The study dealt with the manifestations of the national cultural identity crisis through the new media and ways of consolidating it.

The results of qualitative research based on in-depth semi-structured interviews with a sample of academics and experts in the humanities and social sciences revealed that the identity crisis is not static, but rather changes in its form and intensity.

Young Arab new media users feel that there is a deep gap between technology export and consumer societies; this might prompt them to reconsider their original identity, establishing what might be called a 'white identity' as a kind of mixed personality, transcending forms of local and regional cultural features, deriving from them globalized values.

To overcome the crisis, interviewees advocate judicious use of cyberspace: openness while maintaining the compass of authenticity; the elites were invited to raise awareness to preserve the countryside of the Arab cultural identity through new media