The Investigation of Internet impact onMulticulturalIdentity
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Thisstudy
investigatesthe impact ofthe Internet onMulticulturalIdentityamongUniversity
Students. The main objectiveof thisresearch istheoretical and empiricalstudy
ofthe relationship between theInternet
andMulticulturalIdentity.In
order toachieve this objective, Stuart Hall's theory about Media
Communication andMulticulturalIdentityand
Manuel Castells' theory about the Internet andNetworkSociety, are studied as Theoretical Framework
of Research.The populationstudiedincludes the studentsof Kashan State University and Kashan Medical
Sciences Universityin 2013-14 school year (Equivalent to 9540people), that amongthis population, using Cochran's
formula, 380people are selected,
as theSampleSize. The
results of hypotheses tests of this study suggest that there is meaningful and directcorrelations between the
variable of Multicultural
Identity and the variables of Duration andextent of use ofthe Internet, Proficient inthe use ofinternet, The UseofInternet
Scientific Sites,The Use ofInternetArtSites, Shopping Internet Cultural Goods and The Use ofVirtualSocial Networks.
Also, the results of theRegression
Analysis, shows direct impact of the variables of Social Virtual Networks, The Use ofInternetArtSites and Duration andextent of use ofthe Internet onthe variable of Multicultural Identity. |
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Keywords: Identity, Multicultural Identity, Internet, VirtualSocial Networks, Multiculturalisation, Scientific Sites, ArtSites. |
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General Received: 2013/11/6 | Accepted: 2014/04/7 | Published: 2014/05/20
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