SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL VARIABLES ASSOCIATED WITH YOUTH'S USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA A COMPARATIVE ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES IN AL-ABABDEH AND AL–BASHARI TRIBES

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

1 Post graduate student at Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Reseach, Ain Shams University

2 Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Reseach, Ain Shams University

3 Institute of Social Services at Cairo

4 National Center of Educational and development Research

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the social and physical variables associated with the youth's use of social media and its impact on the youth of the Ababda and Al-Bashariah tribes, and to make a comparison in the use of modern technology between (males and females) within the Ababda and Al-Bashariah tribes. Several sub-goals emerge from the main objective, which are to determine the changes that occurred in the social and physical lifestyle in the Ababda and Al-Bisharia tribes after their use of social networks, the impact of social networks on youth (males and females) in the Ababda and Al-Bisharia communities, identifying the difference in the impact of social networks on social variables. According to the gender (males and females) of the Ababda and Al-Bashariya tribes, determining the difference in the impact of social networks on physical variables according to the type (males and females) for the Ababda and Al-Bisharia tribes. Determining the most important means that can be used to confront the negative aspects resulting from the spread of the use of social networks, in addition to the means that can be used to take advantage of the positive aspects of using social networks and support them. And get acquainted with the lifestyle and characteristics of these tribes from the social, economic and political aspects, due to the characteristics of these tribes. The Al-Ababda and Al-Bashariya tribes are considered tribes that settle in the desert of Aswan Governorate (Wadi Al-Allaqi), and they are considered an area of study, as these tribes went through a set of variables that include all lifestyles, which sparked curiosity in the mind of the researcher in the main question that represents the problem of the research, which is on the following face that whether, There are social and physiological variables brought about by social media and their impact on the youth of the Ababda and Bashariya tribes between (males and females) within these tribes? What are the differences in the quality and lifestyle between the Ababda and Bashary tribes. This study is considered a descriptive anthropological study and these studies are based on a description The data of social reality and an attempt to explain it. The researcher used the analytical descriptive method and determined the relationships that exist between phenomena and trends that go in the path of growth, development and change, and based on this description based on the theory of the ecological system and the theory of functional construction and determining the relationships through which predictions about future situations can be made. The statistical method was also used to analyze the field data and describe it statistically The researcher used (observation, participatory observation, newsmen, the use of some photographs, semi-structured interviews, blogging, pen and paper writing). Then a sample of individuals living in the (desert of Aswan Governorate) was determined. The study sample consisted of (70) seventy individuals who live in Wadi Al-Alaqi and belong to the Ababda and Al-Bashariya tribes of youth (males and females), ordinary individuals, sheikhs and the elders of the two tribes.
After analyzing, presenting and interpreting the data, the study reached several results, perhaps the most important of which are: There are no social changes, but there are physical changes, but not major changes for the youth of these tribes. Social media has affected the youth of these tribes (males and females) in the same proportions. One of the most important results, The researcher also found that the existence of a new society with extraneous changes that does not lead to a change in the cultures of these tribes in particular and the Bedouins in general, due to the extent of their attachment to their customs and traditions in the first place.
One of the recommendations of the study is the necessity of activating a cooperation protocol between the Ministry of Higher Education and the Office of Tribal Affairs responsible for the region Research to advance the educational aspect, especially for women, and enable them to work to benefit from them to be an effective member of society, and to establish cultural convoys in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and tribal leaders for the necessity of eliminating isolationism in that society with its youth (males and females) supported by educational seminars, literary conferences, national celebrations, performances Environmental exhibitions and workshops to benefit from environmental services, youth and people of determination, and to break the isolation that they live in. This community, and benefiting from it as a tourist destination, forcing the youth of those areas to learn languages and electronic literacy and turn them from a closed tribal society to a society open to the whole world, thus creating job opportunities for young people in various fields (handicrafts, innovative industries, tourist guidance ...etc.).
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