Golaleh Ahangari; Bagher Saroukhani; Mohammad Soltani Far
Volume 18, Issue 45 , December 2019, , Pages 9-34
Abstract
The study is first to introduce the species of the identity and then examine the effects of the Internet on it. To achieve the goal, a quantitative-qualitative mix method was used and focused on young people aged 18-30 years in Tehran in 2018. In fact, exploratory qualitative method was used to ...
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The study is first to introduce the species of the identity and then examine the effects of the Internet on it. To achieve the goal, a quantitative-qualitative mix method was used and focused on young people aged 18-30 years in Tehran in 2018. In fact, exploratory qualitative method was used to introduce the species of identities among the youths in Tehran. A sample was selected by 42 people and the identity questionnaire was "Who am I". After open, pivotal and selective coding, six types of identities were introduced, including national identity, ethnic identity, communicative identity, ideological identity, religious identity and modern identity. In fact, after introducing these types of identity, a quantitative survey method was applied to examine their effect on the Internet use. Using the Cochran formula and based on cluster sampling, 524 people were selected among Tehranian youth aged 18 to 30 years. After data collection, analysis was done based on Spss and Lisrel. The findings indicated that only 12% of young people either do not use the Internet completely or if they use less than an hour a day. Only 16 percent search on weblogs and websites, while 83 percent are in the telegram. The findings also indicated that the Internet has had a meaningful effect on national identity, ethnic, modern and communication identity, but the Internet has not had any effect on religious identity and ideological identity.
