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The current research has been done with the aim of studying the psychological and social factors related to the inclination of female teenagers of Shahrekord’s high schools towards virtual social networks. The method used in the study is survey. The statistical population of the research is comprised ...
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The current research has been done with the aim of studying the psychological and social factors related to the inclination of female teenagers of Shahrekord’s high schools towards virtual social networks. The method used in the study is survey. The statistical population of the research is comprised of the entirety of female high school students of Shahrekord city in the year 2014/15, which according to Cochran’s formula, the sample size has been calculated to be 390 students. Data were collected using a questionnaire and with the sampling method of multistage cluster. Findings showed that there is a direct and significant relationship between the inclination towards virtual social networks and the level of education of the students’ parents, usage frequency of virtual social networks, duration of membership in social networks, simplicity and ease of using social networks, sense of conformity with friends, and the need for improvement and meeting needs. The result of multiple regression shows the of five variables of students’ usage frequency of virtual networks, the simplicity of using virtual social networks, duration of membership in social networks, meeting needs and the sense of conformity with friends having a significant effect on inclination of teenagers towards using virtual social networks, among which frequency of usage of virtual social networks has a more important role in determining the variable of inclination towards virtual social networks.
Hadi Khaniki; Hossein Basirian
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Abstract In recent years, virtual social networks, more than any other type of modern media, have provided a ground for activism. The discourse of power, which made scholars of humanities to interpret such acts from different perspectives, is now defined in the cyberspace in a very complicated and networked ...
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Abstract In recent years, virtual social networks, more than any other type of modern media, have provided a ground for activism. The discourse of power, which made scholars of humanities to interpret such acts from different perspectives, is now defined in the cyberspace in a very complicated and networked manner. Accordingly, the users’ activism gives a way to mobilization and unity of the followers of a certain belief in the virtual media culture. In the present paper, first, using the viewpoints of prominent scholars, different aspects of power especially in recent years are explained in order to present an analysis of the concept of power and the way it emerges and is applied in political, economic and social relations. Then, political, economic and social functions of virtual social networks are described and analyzed in three subjects, namely Tahrir square in the Egyptian Revolution, the Wall Street Movement in the US, and the Mock Combat, Water Guns Festival and support for working children in Iran, which are specifically related to the capacity of Facebook social network and the activism of its users in the real world.
