چکیده:
The use of the internet and exposure to cyberspace among Iranian youth is increasing day by day. The influence of this space, due to the widespread nature of the internet and accessibility for everyone, even individuals living in remote areas with limited facilities, is a phenomenon that is growing in today's Iranian society. Although modern media can have positive and negative effects in the communication process, this article only emphasizes the crisis-inducing aspects of this process and considers one of the effects of cyberspace in societies, especially transitioning societies, to be the creation of individual, group, ethnic, and religious identity crises. This study also examines identity changes at various levels and the resulting crisis when facing modern media, especially cyberspace. In this essay, identity and cyberspace are first defined and explained, then the identity crisis and related theories are examined, and finally, the contexts of this crisis are studied in light of research results in today's Iranian society. Investigations show that based on a generational division, the third generation has been the largest group of internet users in Iran and is more exposed to the effects of the internet than other generations; we also find that modern media have become agents of change in identity-forming institutions and that cyberspace has altered the factors that create identity meaning.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Although new media can have positive and negative effects in the communication process, this article only emphasizes the crisis-inducing aspects of this process and considers one of the effects of cyberspace in societies, especially transitional societies, to be the creation of individual, group, ethnic, and religious identity crises.
One of the most important factors in the emergence of identity crisis in current societies is the expansion of the communications industry, especially cyberspace and the internet.
The hypothesis of this article is also based on this: the internet, through the globalization of communication networks and the resulting interactions, has caused changes in the value system, norms, and attitudes of the third generation, and has become a precursor to identity crisis at various levels.
This era, with its specific characteristics resulting from modern communicative processes, has placed a new type of identity crisis before societies (such as Iran).
Now, considering that cyberspace is a space in which an individual has the possibility of creating a new identity for themselves, they are potentially facing an identity crisis that can take various forms in different situations.
In the past, if these types of beliefs regarding religious foundations became widespread among a specific group, they did not extend beyond that group; but today, the communications industry and communication media make such a phenomenon global, challenge the functions of religions in the modern era, and cause the emergence of a religious identity crisis in individuals and societies.
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