The impact of new media in social relations

(A field study on a sample of young people in Baghdad)

Abstract

Modern communication and media technology has pioneered new horizons and curried out deep changes in the various fields of social life, It effected enormously human communication as well.
Content one Who late the developments which have effected the social relations ،due to the new media ،especially Face book ,will certainly notice the far cry changes of the social relation net which has been effected ,in a way or another ،the accelerated development ،under the appearance of the so called the virtual society .
Face book has embodied the means – communication ,which has become an important turn point in the social communication .
It is the point the present paper tries to expose an discuss by a field study curried on a sample of the Iraqi capital ، Baghdad as this slice is the one that deals with Face book attentively ، and because Baghdad has mixed in repents all the components of the Iraqi society .
The objective reasons behind the subject of the study lies in the importance of its subject matter, a vital and modern one, in addition ,the studies which address the impact of new media, particularly Face book, and its effect on the Iraqi society .