New Media and Arabic Cultural Identity in the Global Society

Abstract

New Media and Arabic Cultural Identity in the Global Society Abstract: New media traded universally has been the main force accelerating the changing of Arabic society to the global society. With its digital, convergent, interactive, hyper-textual, and virtual nature, new media has brought Arab human interaction and global society to a highly interconnected and complex level. The rapid transformation in the culture of Arabic societies due to the impact of the convergence of new media and globalization directly influences the construction and cultural specificity of Arabic societies. The new media and globalization not only breaks through the temporal and spatial limit, but also may challenge the meaning of cultural identity of Islamic society. The purpose of this paper is to unravel the intricate relationships between new media, globalization, and cultural identity of Islamic Arab society. Key Words: New media, Global Society, Cultural Identity.