fateme noorirad; hadi khaniki
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Adolescents today live in a cultural world whose boundaries are more blurred than ever before due to their constant presence on social media. The media and technological means of communication have increasingly provided indirect exposure to other cultures. And this situation puts the adolescent in a ...
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Adolescents today live in a cultural world whose boundaries are more blurred than ever before due to their constant presence on social media. The media and technological means of communication have increasingly provided indirect exposure to other cultures. And this situation puts the adolescent in a situation where he has to face challenges over his identity and definition. The identity formed in each person has a specific type and style, which is called identity styles. Identity styles are the scale and degree of distinction that can be made between individuals. In this regard, Brzezinski (1992) considers identity styles to include information, normative, confusing, and commitment.In this regard, the present study seeks to investigate the relationship between attitudes toward social media and identity styles in adolescents aged 12 to 18 years using online survey method and a statistical sample of 1065 people. It was 0.82.The results indicate that there is a significant relationship between confused identity and commitment and attitude to social media and the hypothesis of a relationship between informational and normative identity style with attitude to social media has been rejected
Sobhan Yahyaei
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This paper seeks to describe media consumption mechanism in adolescents-as the most influential age group.In relation to the expected norm of exploratory research, we don’t have a theoretical basis and prior assumptions.The methodology in this paper is the Grounded Theory, and the author claims ...
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This paper seeks to describe media consumption mechanism in adolescents-as the most influential age group.In relation to the expected norm of exploratory research, we don’t have a theoretical basis and prior assumptions.The methodology in this paper is the Grounded Theory, and the author claims that, through inductive logic based on deep interviews and observations, presents a theoretical system of adolescent media consumption mechanism.In the implementation of Grounded Theory, after conducting 22 individual in depth interviews and observations on the field, 1050 open coding were obtained in the first stage. Subsequently, axial coding have done with 362 categories for identifying concepts, and 15 concepts by Selective Coding were identified as core concepts in the use of description of adolescent media mechanism.Then selective coding applied to construction of theoretical model that were formed by systemic consequences of adolescent media consumption were identified in 5 levels;• Arrhythmia of the media in adolescents• Active exposure to the media consumption• Adult adaptation• Multi-level seeking Distinction• Family conflicts as a result of adolescent media consumptionThus, the outcome of this article is a theoretical portrait of media usage mechanisms by adolescents.