Al Lily Abdulrahman Essa, Ismail Abdelrahim Fathy, Abunasser Fathi Mohammed, Alhajhoj Alqahtani Rafdan Hassan, Al-Lami Firass, Al Saud AlJohara Fahad
Department of Curriculum and Teaching Methods, College of Education, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia.
College of Education, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt.
J Intell. 2022 Dec 28;11(1):7. doi: 10.3390/jintelligence11010007.
This article scrutinises the linkage between ethnicity and people's behaviour on Twitter. It examines how offline culture manifests itself online among Arabs. The article draws upon the literature to identify the offline ethnic characteristics of Arabs, and through interviews with and observations of Arab social media users, discovers their online ethnic characteristics. It then compares these online and offline characteristics and, through this comparison, finds that offline culture has been enacted online among Arabs, sustaining expressions of generosity, religiosity, traditionalism, female privacy, over-flattery, collectivism, tribalism, pan-Arabism, and social contracts; however, in other ways, offline culture has been counteracted online, which has led to the destabilisation of power relations between genders, elites and non-elites, and majorities and minorities. A further finding is that online culture has been enacted offline among Arabs in that online performance has exerted influence over offline ethnic identity expectations. In short, there are three main findings: offline culture has been enacted online, offline culture has been counteracted online, and online culture has been enacted offline. The take-home finding of this study is the existence of 'e-ethnic culture', that is, although ethnic activity online tends to be based on and reinforces offline realities and may alter offline realities as well, not all online performances have roots offline.
本文审视了种族与人们在推特上行为之间的联系。它考察了线下文化在阿拉伯人当中如何在网络上呈现自身。文章借鉴相关文献来确定阿拉伯人的线下种族特征，并通过对阿拉伯社交媒体用户的访谈和观察，发现他们的网络种族特征。然后将这些线上和线下特征进行比较，通过这种比较发现，线下文化在阿拉伯人当中已在网络上得以体现，维持了慷慨、宗教性、传统主义、女性隐私、过度奉承、集体主义、部落主义、泛阿拉伯主义以及社会契约等的表达；然而，在其他方面，线下文化在网络上受到了抵制，这导致了性别之间、精英与非精英之间以及多数群体与少数群体之间权力关系的不稳定。另一个发现是，线上文化在阿拉伯人当中已在网络外得以体现，因为线上表现对线下种族身份期望产生了影响。简而言之，有三个主要发现：线下文化在网络上得以体现，线下文化在网络上受到抵制，线上文化在网络外得以体现。本研究的关键发现是“电子种族文化”的存在，也就是说，尽管网络上的种族活动往往基于线下现实并强化线下现实，也可能改变线下现实，但并非所有线上表现都有线下根源。
