خلاصة:
The purpose of this article is to survey the role of mobile social network in reproduction of the ethnic identity of Kurdish students in Tehran universities. To this end, using the deductive strategy, we have set up a theoretical framework for compilation (the theory of Domestication of Media, Ted Robert gurr's Ethno-Political Identity Theory and Henri Tajfel's social identity Theory). The data collection tool was a written questionnaire. A sample of 400 students from Kurds in social sciences and human sciences of Tarbiat Modarres, Tehran, Shahid Beheshti, Allameh Tabataba'i and Shahed universities were surveyed using cluster sampling. The statistical analysis of the survey also revealed that the social software programs included the Telegram, the Instagram, WhatsApp and Emo. Analytical results have shown that Telegram and Instagram, without controlling the impact of political, social and cultural variables, have been related to the ethnic identity of students, but by controlling the impact of these variables, the impact of the use of social media on telegrams and Instagram has been greatly reduced. Thus, the present paper has shown that modern social media is only a new way of representing the identity of individuals and the main causes of ethnic identity escalation should be sought in the offline world and among structural causes such as relative deprivation, dissatisfaction, ethnical life experience, and so on.
ملخص الجهاز:
The results of the statistical analysis of this part of the research also showed that the most popular social software included Telegram, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Imo. Analytical results showed that Telegram and Instagram, without controlling for the influence of political, social, and cultural variables, were related to the ethnic identity of students; however, by controlling the influence of these variables, the effect of using social media * Associate Professor of Communication Sciences, Allameh Tabataba'i University.
Accordingly, the main research question is: what role has membership and activity in mobile-based social media played, from the perspective of Kurdish student users, in strengthening their self-awareness, belonging, and identity commitment to their offline world?
While the main goal of the present research is to identify and analyze the relationship between the consumption of social media based on mobile messaging software and the ethnic identity of the country's sensitive ethnicities, including the Kurds, none of the related studies in this field have approached our goal.
Similarly, when the mediating variables were also controlled, this relationship remained non-significant, and it can be claimed that the use of the social media WhatsApp, whether directly or indirectly, has had no significant effect on the ethnic identity of Kurdish students in Tehran universities, and this medium has only performed a communicative role between users due to its functional limitations.
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