Virtual Communities and Their Social and Political Impacts on Youth
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Contemporary society live tremendous shifts in the field of communication and media in recent years have led to significant changes in the production and distribution methods and receive information. Techniques of modern communication methods have emerged, and it spread from the way the properties and functions of communication new, the most important shift from mass communication one-way, and content homogenized, to interactive communication techniques with directions, and multiple implications, and the back of the term (new media) to express these phenomena new, leading to the emergence of many concepts, most notably virtual community, which has become a parallel reality imposes itself simulates the real society, has its effects on young people in all areas of life, including political and social private. This paper is to highlight the default interaction for young people and reflection on the political and social awareness
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