Mohammad saeeid zokaei; mohammad taghi karami; Shima FarzadManesh
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Many scholars believe that social media has changed the everyday communication and social structures especially for margin groups like women. This study aims to find how Instagram influences representation of women’s everyday life, and how do women try to represent their everyday life in cyberspace?The ...
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Many scholars believe that social media has changed the everyday communication and social structures especially for margin groups like women. This study aims to find how Instagram influences representation of women’s everyday life, and how do women try to represent their everyday life in cyberspace?The research is based on a phenomenology approach and thematic analysis of the 800 post from 26 Instagrammer’s pages and their comments. This study aims to understand what are the most important themes represented by women about family roles, the body, consumption and satisfaction, by investigation on the connotation of their photos and captions in pages.Results indicates the following types of themes: first: motherhood and ideal home ; subjectivity coupled with power, Second: representation of male-female identities and identity’s paradoxes, third: representation of satisfaction in the family, conspicuous consumption and beauty . Also the results shows that Instagram has identity and leisure function for women.Data analysis shows that they use the cyberspace to challenge reality of public sphere that has caused be living in a paradoxical life world which makes women neither be objects of male dominance as they are in traditional clichés, nor be sovereign subject who is capable to deconstruct gendered patterns. Rather, they simultaneously have degrees of subjectivity and objectivity that empowers them to ignore some degrees of male dominance or to negotiate them, because there are some possibilities in social media and cyberspace like Instageram.
Azam Deh Soufiyani; Baharak Mahmoodi
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The purpose of writing this article is to study the action of a group of "improved homeless women" as part of the social inferiority on Instagram. Although the group has less access to official media, they have the opportunity to show themselves and their daily lives on social media and social media. ...
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The purpose of writing this article is to study the action of a group of "improved homeless women" as part of the social inferiority on Instagram. Although the group has less access to official media, they have the opportunity to show themselves and their daily lives on social media and social media. Therefore, in this article, the content shared by this group on Instagram was studied. With these questions, what topics do these women share on their Instagram posts? In these images, how does the transition from homelessness to homelessness occur? And in general, what capabilities and opportunities does this social network provide for them as tools and strategies for living their daily lives?This research was conducted with a qualitative approach and the method of thematic analysis and study of 140 Instagram posts from page 10 of the homeless women. Based on the findings of the present paper, three categories of topics including "adorned appearance", "social presence" and "search for peace" were identified in the posts. Despite the lack of past displays in the transition from homelessness to homelessness and the viewing of images of women without a past in these posts, it seems that displaying a new "self" on Instagram has a compensatory function; Such as politics and resistance, which are discussed in Bayat's theory of "quiet progress" and the concept of "tactics of coping."
Mohammad Mahdi Forghan; Bahar Badiee
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Recent years have witnessed great changes in the field of mobile communication with the emergence of smartphones. The expansion of modern technologies is borderless and the Iranian society has also witnessed the social changes caused by media technologies. The lives of the youth, as the most accepting ...
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Recent years have witnessed great changes in the field of mobile communication with the emergence of smartphones. The expansion of modern technologies is borderless and the Iranian society has also witnessed the social changes caused by media technologies. The lives of the youth, as the most accepting group when it comes to new technologies, have been affected and changed by these technologies. The present study is concerned with the process of acquisition and domestication of smartphones by the Iranian youth. With a qualitative approach, we conducted in-depth interviews with a number of bachelor students studying in the city of Tehran and found six main categories of smartphone consumption in the personal and social lives of the interviewed Iranian youth. These categories are as follows: accessing information including looking up facts, reading news. The second category is location-based applications that include showing locations, controlling locations, and feeling safe. The third category is communicating including using social networks, using some application programs and getting detached from real communities. The fourth category called technological adaptation includes being everywhere, ease of learning, and fluidity of technology. The fifth category is individual independence. This includes independence from family and forming selective relationships. Finally, the sixth category is controlling technology consumption. It includes controlling how one’s virtual identity is represented.
