Virtual interactive via distance learning platforms during the Covid 19 pandemic -A symbolic ethnographic study of interaction

Abstract

This study aims to reveal patterns of virtual interaction across digital education platforms, as a new pattern and formula for distance education, and as one of the educational trends, especially after the Covid-19 crisis, which forced university institutions to go to this type of education, so this new type has become inevitable to keep pace with social demand, And also to eliminate the problems facing the Algerian university education and play an optimal role in achieving its goals due to its high speed and high ability to communicate and interact. This study belongs to qualitative studies, epistemology, based on the ethnographic method, my tools and observation by participation, and an in-depth interview with the users of the class room platform in both the universities of Batna 1 and Constantine 3, media and communication specialization, to obtain results that show whether there is a difference in the symbolic interaction in the middle, With the difference in the way the educational process proceeds, as it turned from a realistic traditional, to a virtual modern one, due to the Corona pandemic, and also relying on symbolic interaction as a theoretical framework for the study that helps analyze the symbolic dimensions of interaction within this platform