TY - BOOK AU - Suwaidi,Jamal S. ED - Markaz al-Imārāt lil-Dirāsāt wa-al-Buḥūth al-Istirātījīyah. TI - From tribe to Facebook: the transformation role of social networks SN - 9789948146308 AV - HM 851 .S89 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Abu Dhabi, UAE PB - The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research KW - Social networks KW - Internet KW - Social aspects KW - Teleconferencing KW - fast KW - Soziales Netzwerk KW - gnd KW - Isolation KW - Sozialer Wandel N1 - Cd-rom contains PDF file of the text of the book; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; 1; Scope of the Study --; 2; Previous Studies --; 3; Social Networks: Concept and Role --; 4; Statistical Indicators of Main Social Networks --; 5; The Social Networking Age --; 6; Data-entry Potential of Social Networks --; 7; Impact of Social Networks --; 8; Prospects for the Relationship between Traditional Media and Social Networks --; 9; Legal Problems associated with the Use of Social Networks --; 10; Social Networks: Future Prospects --; 11; Conclusion; Various Future Prospects N2 - The effects of online social networking have been transformed at a global level - and nowhere more so than in the Arab world. Influencing politics, economics, society, security and the media, these online networks have become a means for people to voice their opinion, meet others with similar views and often organize themselves into coherent groups (whether activist or not). Jamal Al-Suwaidi argues that social networks have led to a societal shift from a tribal mentality to that of a Facebook group mentality. Within the architecture of social networks, each group of users had its own common orientation and outlook - effectively forming an allegiance of its own. These 'virtual' allegiances combine with 'real' ones in order to characterize the new social structures of the twenty-first century. From Tribe to Facebook charts the impact of this trend in order to explore and analyze the potential outcomes of the accelerated development of social networks ER -