Ethics in Cyberspace: Factors of Membership, Viewed Measure and Insolubility Pornography Internet Groups

Subject Areas : Media Management

Hamid Massoudi ¹ , Hossein Beravan ²

1 - دانشجوی دکتری جامعه شناسی، دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد عهده دار مکاتبات
2 - استاد گروه علوم اجتماعی، دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد

Received: 2014-08-05 Accepted : 2014-10-06 Published : 2014-10-23

Keywords: Internet groups, pornography, online questionnaire,

Abstract :

This study examines the factors associated with the contents of immoral or pornographic message in Internet groups. The research method is survey and the tool was Internet questionnaire. All Internet users have formed the statistical community. The questionnaire sent to email users and 115 users have submitted their answers to the researchers. The findings show the most members of this unethical group are single men with a mean age of 26 years, bachelor's degree and employed. 82 percent less than a year and 80 percent of the search in internet are familiar with this group. 57% of users in this group to offer others and 81 percent also tend to continue their membership. Average weekly visit of Members of the posts is 7.13 times. They have 80 percent interest in issues of pornography and 82% are satisfied with pornographic content and 60% of users were not supervised by relatives. The results showed that subjects are more interested in pornography, most views are pornographic content. Age, education and satisfaction with the visit of pornographic content’s Internet groups had a significant direct relationship. Average visit of pornographic content’s Internet groups of men more than women and Singles more than married and in workers was more than unemployed. Finally, the satisfaction of the pornographic contents of messages, the supervised by relatives and join with other groups had relationship with visit of pornographic content’s Internet group.