This work focuses on analyzing the Egyptian youths’ uses of social media with others from different societies and measuring its relation with a restructuring of the Egyptian cultural identity. Based on the definition of identity, this work claims that this type of communication leads to the birth of new values about the Egyptian self. It also discusses the strategies governing the communication relating to cultural identity through social media as Olson claims. This work depends on descriptive and interpretive surveys of a sample of social media users of Egyptian university youths. This is in order to enable the researcher to have definite useful data. The research depends on the electronic survey covering several main categories: the field and characteristic of the exchanged information through social media, the limits and impacts of the dialogue about the cultural identity and the values gained from the dialogue with others and their impacts on the cultural identity of the youths. The sample of informants is composed of 200 respondents of the Cairo University chosen by the availability method. The latter is one of the scientific methods of forming samples in the research community, which has no limited framework through which one can compose a sample. The sample is composed of 53% males and 47% females both from the age category of 18-35. The informants\informers are from different science and non-science majors and levels The work findings are: (1) Informants in exchanging information are • interested in useful general knowledge information • less interested in specialized information of high quality • Most interested in video clips. (2)Speaking the same language is the most important condition to participate in a dialogue on the social media (3) Youths mostly tend to choose locals to talk about the values governing the cultural identity (4)Youths tend mostly to talk to people of the same region about the above topic (5) The youths’ goals are to gain knowledge first followed by having an idea about culture, (6) The study proves that there is a correlation between the increasing use of social media and the tendency to use the social media impact with others of the same cultural values. (7)The study proves that there are indicative differences in the conditions of the participation in dialogue depending on the identity of the other participant (Egyptian or non-Egyptian)
This work focuses on analyzing the Egyptian youths’ uses of social media with others from different societies and measuring its relation with a restructuring of the Egyptian cultural identity. Based on the definition of identity, this work claims that this type of communication leads to the birth of new values about the Egyptian self. It also discusses the strategies governing the communication relating to cultural identity through social media as Olson claims. This work depends on descriptive and interpretive surveys of a sample of social media users of Egyptian university youths. This is in order to enable the researcher to have definite useful data. The research depends on the electronic survey covering several main categories: the field and characteristic of the exchanged information through social media, the limits and impacts of the dialogue about the cultural identity and the values gained from the dialogue with others and their impacts on the cultural identity of the youths. The sample of informants is composed of 200 respondents of the Cairo University chosen by the availability method. The latter is one of the scientific methods of forming samples in the research community, which has no limited framework through which one can compose a sample. The sample is composed of 53% males and 47% females both from the age category of 18-35. The informants\informers are from different science and non-science majors and levels The work findings are: (1) Informants in exchanging information are • interested in useful general knowledge information • less interested in specialized information of high quality • Most interested in video clips. (2)Speaking the same language is the most important condition to participate in a dialogue on the social media (3) Youths mostly tend to choose locals to talk about the values governing the cultural identity (4)Youths tend mostly to talk to people of the same region about the above topic (5) The youths’ goals are to gain knowledge first followed by having an idea about culture, (6) The study proves that there is a correlation between the increasing use of social media and the tendency to use the social media impact with others of the same cultural values. (7)The study proves that there are indicative differences in the conditions of the participation in dialogue depending on the identity of the other participant (Egyptian or non-Egyptian)