Hossein Hassani; Abdolhossein Kalantari
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The objective of the paper is to study lived experience of Iranian Instagram users. The forming of specific kind of interactions has established by special features of the social media. The features embedded new experiences in the everyday routines of the active users; so the authors concentrated who ...
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The objective of the paper is to study lived experience of Iranian Instagram users. The forming of specific kind of interactions has established by special features of the social media. The features embedded new experiences in the everyday routines of the active users; so the authors concentrated who are since long time active in this social media. Interpretive phenomenology approach and semi-structured interview has been used to understanding the deep meanings of their experiences. Concentrating on experienced users with at least two years of membership, totally, sixteen participants have been interviewed. Thematic analysis has been used for analyzing participants’ answers. Analysis of the data identified different themes such as like as appreciation and creation of social relationship; comment as dialogue field; the importance of affluence of users; and lack of formation of real friendships. In sum, regarding increasing blurring of real and cyber life differences, one must not ignore consequences of cyber experiences such as inclusion and exclusion on real life. Furthermore, any interruption in the everyday practices of Instagram users could lead to negative social and psychological consequences.
S M; M A
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This article studies formation of youth culture and cultural identity by focusing on their experiences and interactions in virtual social networks and use of the networks in their daily lives. This article is the result of research work on Tehranian young users of Facebook social networking site that ...
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This article studies formation of youth culture and cultural identity by focusing on their experiences and interactions in virtual social networks and use of the networks in their daily lives. This article is the result of research work on Tehranian young users of Facebook social networking site that has been done since 22 May 2015 to early October 2015. In this paper, the method of virtual ethnography has been used to explore lived experiences of youth involvement and interactions with social networks, the meaning and concepts related to them as well as the reasons and motivations of young people in these networks. The results of this paper in addition to illustrating the lived experience of social networks and the situation of using youth of these networks shows that presence on social networks as everyday life, provides space or potential for youth to form spatial type of culture and cultural identity. The most important dimensions of youth culture includes: Being reactive, individualistic, trans-gender, class-base, and consumerist.
