Social Media and Its Socio-cultural Impact on the Tribal Structure in the Mecheria Region

Abstract :The cessation of Internet services for only a few hours creates clear confusion, and members of society become living in a state of “social alienation.” This indicates the depth of the psychological and social integration of individuals with this virtual network, which has drawn the attention of many researchers and those interested in researching the phenomenon and revealing its social, political, and media dimensions. The use of social media is no longer limited to urban communities only, but has become widespread even in remote areas with a rural Bedouin character. Our approach to this phenomenon, in its various dimensions, comes as a serious attempt to examine the functional relationship between the status of the virtual world and its outcomes in reshaping the Algerian social reality, by presenting a general problem that states:How did social media contribute to reproducing the representations of members of the Algerian tribal community towards their social reality? Keywords : Social media, Social change, Nomadism, The tribe, Identity.