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    1 - A Pathological Study of the Effect of Internet on the Social Isolation among the Students
    Sociological Studies of Youth , Issue 5 , Year , Autumn 2014
    Digitalization of media is one of the outcomes of technologic relations in the new world. Flourishing contemporary technologies in the society resulted in transferring a large part of traditional face-to-face communication to virtual communication. Therefore, such proce More
    Digitalization of media is one of the outcomes of technologic relations in the new world. Flourishing contemporary technologies in the society resulted in transferring a large part of traditional face-to-face communication to virtual communication. Therefore, such process breaks down traditional patterns of human connections and developing the size of online relationships. In addition, one of the most important issues that were observed about social problems in the current world is the rate of social isolation and disconnection that mentally causes double hopelessness and lack of security and trust by means of deprivation senses and lack of satisfaction toward life. Author of this article aims at analyzing the pathology of using internet on youths social isolation among 180 students of Payamenoor University in different levels of education using researcher made questionnaire. Finding shows that using internet with Beta 28% has a direct impact on social isolation of users. Manuscript profile

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    2 - Role of internet in Formation of National Identity Using Analytical Model (Case Study: 18-30 years old youth in Kashan)
    Sociological Studies of Youth , Issue 5 , Year , Autumn 2015
    The present research has been conducted aiming at specifying how the youth use internet and how they are influenced of emerging media via survey as the research method. The statistical population (200445) consists of 18-30 years old youth in Kashan. The sample (384) was More
    The present research has been conducted aiming at specifying how the youth use internet and how they are influenced of emerging media via survey as the research method. The statistical population (200445) consists of 18-30 years old youth in Kashan. The sample (384) was selected using random sampling method via Morgan table. To elaborate the hypotheses, Tajfel's theory has been used to specify dimensions of national identity and Katz's Happiness Theory and Giddens' Structuration Theory have been used to determine how the users are influenced under use of internet. In the present research, questionnaire has been used to collect data. Findings of research indicate that the results of variance analysis test indicated that there is a significant difference on youth's cognitive identity regarding how the youth use internet. The correlation coefficient between the youth's motivation to use internet and cognitive identity (r=0.229), the correlation coefficient between the youth's motivation to use internet and affective identity (r=0.130) and the correlation coefficient between the youth's motivation to use internet and general identity (r=0.180) is significant at p Manuscript profile