Study Effective Factors on the Presence Level of Women in Networks Social of Virtual (Case Study: Women in Tehran)

Subject Areas : Media Management

Leila Niroomand ¹ , Shayesteh Zohabi ²

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Received: 2015-03-05 Accepted : 2015-06-04 Published : 2015-04-21

Keywords: Virtual Social Networks, women, self- presentation, awareness  ,

Abstract :

Public access to virtual social networks and the exponential increase of internet penetration in iran and along with increasing several women sites, blogs, and information data base, on this world wide, result in a special consideration of users to thess networks. The purpose of research on factors affecting women's participation in social networks is virtual. The study of the quiddity of quantitative research is the purpose of the application. The statistical population of the present study is consisting of tehran resident women. The statistical sample is consisting of 400 individuals. To data collection a self-constructed questionnaire after confirming the validity and reliability was used. There was a positive significant relationship between all of the variables (including type of the relationship by intimate trust, conservative, using the advantages, type of activity, number of expected applications, and frequency of the networks) and presence of women in social networks (p<0.01). Also the results suggested that there’s a significant and positive relationship between awareness (knowledge) of women and their participation in social networks (p<0.01). Given that much of the studied women were in favor of women presence in the cyberspace and social networks, it is necessary it is essential that create an appropriate notification and culture in this area to women use cyberspace only for raising their awareness and useful chores