Social representation “of” social media among Romanian teenagers: investigating the negotiation of national and supra-national identity in the process of European integration through the “associative network technique”
Social media and European Union have gained tremendous power in the last two decades, and they
have undoubtedly brought major changes in societies, so that the individuals face significant new
aspects, especially in terms of identity negotiation. Given the political and the digital contexts, one of
the best cases for studying these changes is the case of Romania, where the process of European
integration and the huge spread of social media went side by side from the beginning (mid-2000s),