Abstract:
The aim of this article is to examine the role of media in national security through their impact on national identity and the nation-building process of the country. National identity and the nation-building process are shaped and transformed under the influence of the dominant narrative. The impact and role of media in shaping each individual's narrative and the dominant narrative of society has turned them into the most powerful tool in politics. The main claim of this article is that in a society like Iran, where national identity and identity elements play a decisive role in shaping society, politics, and its national security, one of the main axes of action against national security is focused on changing the components of national identity, especially through the media. The main emphasis of the article is on efforts to influence the national identity of Iranians in recent years through the media. Although in a society like Iran, national identity is a historical phenomenon that has been shaped and evolved over centuries; however, due to the fundamental and structural impacts of narrative, extensive investment is observed in utilizing narrative to influence national identity across various media.
Machine summary:
Although in a society like Iran, national identity is a historical phenomenon that has been shaped and evolved over centuries; however, due to the fundamental and structural effects of narrative, extensive investment is observed in utilizing narrative to influence national identity across various media.
(Mahdizadeh, 1387: 19-22) The research method in this study is library-based, which examines the role of the variable of media by utilizing the narrative approach in the influence and shaping of the national identity of countries (in this writing, the case of Iran).
Research based on the narrative approach shows that narratives guide human actions and people construct identities by placing themselves or being placed within a set of stories; they show that experience is obtained through narratives; they show that people understand the meaning of what has happened and what happens to them by striving to piece together or in some way include these events in one or more narratives, and they show that people are guided toward specific behaviors in certain directions based on images, predictions, expectations, and memories obtained from a set of existing social, public, and cultural narratives.
(Somers, 1, 1994: 609) Although in a society like Iran, national identity is a historical phenomenon that has taken shape and evolved over centuries, due to the fundamental and structural effects of narrative, extensive investment is observed in utilizing narrative to influence national identity across various media.
In today's world, where communication technology has advanced at an unimaginable speed and transformed the face of the world, mass media plays a very important role in the production and reproduction of culture and national identity through narrativity.
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