vahid qasemi; samad adli pour; badri borandegi
Volume 6, Issue 2 , March 2017, , Pages 77-100
Abstract
By transforming the concepts of time and space, changing new forms of communication, and creating new resources of identity,modern media and particularly the Interment and virtual social networkshave resulted in the advent of instable mentalities and new identities. Therefore, the present study seeks ...
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By transforming the concepts of time and space, changing new forms of communication, and creating new resources of identity,modern media and particularly the Interment and virtual social networkshave resulted in the advent of instable mentalities and new identities. Therefore, the present study seeks to investigate the effect of Facebook social network on the gender identity of university students. The present study is conducted using a survey research technique and distributing an internet-based researcher-designed questionnaires among students who are users of Facebook social network in the University of Isfahan in the 2012-2013academic year. The findings of the present research indicate that users’ gender identity is influenced by their membership in Facebook. In addition, the duration of membership in Facebook and the degree of using Facebook are reversely correlated to gender identity. In other words, increasing the membership duration in Facebook and the degree of using Facebook results in the weakening of users’ gender identity.
