THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT AND ITS REPERCUSSIONS ON FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS IN NEW MILLENNIUM SOCIETIES

After the dominance of the digital environment over our lives and its occupation of wide areas of our social, cognitive and economic interests, it has infiltrated all areas of life.In fact, traditional media has begun to decline in all its forms and has been replaced by digital media and digital technologies that have begun to provide us with real-time news, information, and developments in life and give us ideas about work and earning opportunities.We began to depend on it in our choices, but it is the one that controls our tastes and offers us what we like and desire.Social media networks and virtual communities have become closer to us than our brothers and friends at work or the neighborhood in which we live and the real social environment.Therefore, our paper focuses on a survey study of a sample of professors of media, communication, psychology, and sociology to study the social repercussions of family relations in light of the digital environment and how it has begun to control our lives?The research aims, by adopting a survey approach (audience survey) for a sample of academic elites in the aforementioned specializations, to prepare a questionnaire to arrive at answers to these questions, and to try to identify the gaps and problems caused by the new media, and to search for scientific solutions or treatments according to a scientific approach.Among the most important results it reached The search is:1-The processes of immersion in the digital environment have caused the inculcation of some alien habits in society, in addition to the fact that many individuals tend to hide their true personalities in the digital environment with the aim of not letting their families know about them.