The Role of Virtual Social Media Networks on Tending Toward Participating in Modern Social Movments (The Case study of Yasuj Citizens)

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1 Associate of Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran

2 Assistant Professor of Islamic Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 Master of Social Science Research, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

Abstract

The present study aims to examine the role of virtual social networks in the tendency to participate in modern social movements in Yasuj. This cross-sectional study was conducted with survey method in Yasuj. The population of this study was 15 years and older citizens in Yasuj, which according to the subject of the research, the electronic sampling method was probabilistic. The results showed that there is a direct and significant relationship between the two components of trust in virtual social networks and the tendency to participate in modern social movements, there is a direct and significant relationship between the two components, informative and easy communication of virtual social networks and the tendency to participate in modern social movements. There was also a significant difference between the tendency to participate in modern social movements in terms of age, socio-economic class and the level of activity in virtual social networks, but there was no significant difference between the components of gender, education of individuals and the type (subject) of using virtual social networks and the tendency to participate in modern social movements. The results showed that a total of four variables within the equation (trust in social networks, informative and easy communication of social networks, age and level of activity in virtual social networks) can predict 26% of the variance of the dependent variable of the tendency to participate in modern social movements for the study population.

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Quarterly Journal of Social Development (Previously Human Development)
Volume 18, Issue 4 - Serial Number 72
Vol. 18, No. 4, Summer 2024
September 2024
Pages 35-66

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