The Digitally Transformed Self: An Anthropological Study of Social Representation on Social Media

Many concepts related to the anthropology of digital spaces in Algeria remain obscure and shrouded in ambiguity.Those who follow the paths of social representation in social media are well aware of this reality.These digital platforms are of paramount importance to researchers and those interested in activating anthropological research tools and measuring their field and epistemological effectiveness.They approach the network of social relations with methodological caution, examining how it seeks to establish its existence within the duality of the real and the virtual.This network attempts to rely on the foundations of linguistic understanding and interpretation of the self and intertextuality, one of the most important aspects of what is known as digital disguise in the current and evolving cultural context.We are deeply involved in the structural transformations of various communication patterns, which necessarily lead us to the ethnomethodological approach.We rely on this approach as a robust tool in our attempt to interpret meaning within the cultural and social context, considering that the digital space has now become an open stage where symbolic relationships are produced, values are reformulated, and the self is digitally questioned at every turn.This study may well fulfill some of the various epistemological needs based on the data that...We glean these insights directly from the field, observing their communicative paradigms explicitly and directly, given that these actors in the digital space are not strangers but rather individuals with whom we share strong social and familial ties.