Algerian youth between self-identity and virtual identity in the light of new media. A field study on a sample of students of Skikda University, Facebook pioneers.

Abstract

By preparing this scientific article, we aim to shed light on the problem of multiple identities among
Algerian youth, through a sample of university students, as it is one of the most prominent problems that
presents itself within the current sociological issues in societal construction due to the increasing factors that
were severely limited by globalization, and what resulted from it From the fragmentation of identity among
the Algerian youth, who found himself at a crossroads, several valuable identities, which sometimes amount
to incompatibility and incompatibility, hijack him, to form a crisis of intellectual turmoil and separation
from himself due to his response to various forms of cultural openness, and the imposed collapse of
distances as a result of the technical revolution and the development Media and communication technologies
and the new communication patterns that emerged, in the forefront of which are modern social media such
as Facebook, which we prepared this study on a sample of students from its pioneers. In return for his
peculiar tendency that attracts him towards the values of the society to which he belongs as the original
values of his steadfastness and support because it is derived from the values and origins that constitute the
constants of the nation, and it involves a set of specificities that place him between the tides and islands that
make him live a conflict between if his original identity obliges him to be open to the products The other as
global humanistic productions, or does the specificity of its original identity distinguish it?