Seyed Jamal Akbarzadeh Jahromi; Avin Ahmadi
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The emergence and expansion of virtual social networks, especially image-based social networks, has provided a relatively open space for representing identity and even identity building to ethnic and marginalized groups in society that have historically been deprived of it. This article seeks to identify ...
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The emergence and expansion of virtual social networks, especially image-based social networks, has provided a relatively open space for representing identity and even identity building to ethnic and marginalized groups in society that have historically been deprived of it. This article seeks to identify the types of identity species that represented by Kurdish women on the Instagram social network; It is also identify the strategies and techniques that these women use to represent their collective identities. The research method used is a qualitative Netographic in which the Sadbak model consists of three interview techniques, collaborative observation and virtual content reading. According to the findings, although users have become more involved in representing their identities, but their activity is influenced by predetermined social network architecture structures such as liking, commenting, and sharing images. The findings also showed that there are three identity types of Kurdish women in this network: “cosmopolitanism”, “Iranian-National” and “ethnical”. The elements of each of them were divided into three categories: “belonging to the desired community”, “culture”, and “politics” and each of these subsets was represented by its own strategies and techniques. Identities represented on Instagram are more diverse than mass media. Also, these identities are fluid and polymeric and occur more radically at certain times, such as social crises.
seyyed jamaledin jahromi; Masoud Taghiabadi
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This paper seeks to study the Iranian microcelebrities and their use of the new media to entering at the star system. Efforts have been made to examine the role of social networks in deepening the celebrity culture and creating a new kind of "stardom" by examining five of the Instagram users. For study ...
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This paper seeks to study the Iranian microcelebrities and their use of the new media to entering at the star system. Efforts have been made to examine the role of social networks in deepening the celebrity culture and creating a new kind of "stardom" by examining five of the Instagram users. For study of Instagram pages, the qualitative method of social semantics have been used. This research is the first internal research that addresses the phenomenon of Iranian microcelebrities, and in particular how they use Selfie To enter at the star system. The findings of this paper show that with the growth of social networks, the celebrity culture in Iran has been changed. The traditional star system, which had hitherto been based on hierarchies and specific norms of the mass media, has now undergone a change. The consequences of this transformation are the entry of ordinary people into the star system. In the meantime, a major way of presenting a desirable self is Selfie images that are often based on gender discourse. By publishing Selfie images, the viewer enters into the most personal moods of life belonging to these emerging stars. This shows that the mechanisms for spread of microcelebrity in social networks are changing the important aspects of the culture and the boundaries of privacy. Changes in the Celebrity culture can be correlated with other Macrocultural changes such as increasing individualism, deepening of the secularism and weakening of some of the indices of religiosity in Iranian society.
