Abstract
Religion, identity and media play major role in defining and directing the lives of young people in every community, especially in Islamic countries such asIran. Concerning the connection between religion and the media, in particular,new foreign media, many people believe that the media undermine the ...
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Religion, identity and media play major role in defining and directing the lives of young people in every community, especially in Islamic countries such asIran. Concerning the connection between religion and the media, in particular,new foreign media, many people believe that the media undermine the religiousidentity of the people by distributing and displaying opinions, images andideas, which are against and in conflict with religious values. Another fact isthat commenting on the youths and teens’ religious transformation, regardless of the media seems insufficient and incomplete. The present study investigatesthe relationship between media, i.e. the internet and satellite programs, and religious identity of high school students in Marvdasht. To overcome theobjectives of study, we employed a survey research via providing a questionnaire to collect data. Participants are also chosen through a clustersampling technique to fit the study requirement. Findings reveal a negative and significant correlation between the two variables, i.e. using the internet andsatellite, and three dimensions of religious identity of students. The highest correlations between using the internet and three dimensions of religiousidentity are found in practical, emotional and ideological dimensions, (-0.53), (-0.44) and (-0.39) respectively. Thus, it might be concluded that, greater use ofsatellite and the internet aim to reduce the religious identity of the studied high school students in three practical, emotional and ideological dimensions.
