The Family in the Age of Digital Communication: Transformations of Interaction and the Risks of Social Isolation

This research aims to identify the new communicative environment which is considered one of the most important risks that have changed the pattern of communication in society, which is no longer based on physical presence, geographical proximity, temporal coordination, and cultural homogeneity, and this is likely to affect negatively on the social bonds between individuals, especially since it provides companionship and the feeling of belonging and social identity therefore the emergence and spread of social networks has produced many social problems including the fracturing of family relationships and the appearance of the problem of social and psychological isolation and this new pattern of communication has affected on the process of individual and collective interaction within the family mileu and within the broader social mileu, it is true that smartphones and social media their main objective was "promoting communication and strengthening of relationships," but the reality is diferent it has become completely diferent, and we have begun to suffer from loneliness and isolation more than ever.