Investigating the relationship between the use of national media and rumored belief in mobile networks among the people of Ahwaz

Subject Areas : Social Science Quarterly

Seyyed Amir Azarshin ¹ , Somayyeh Tajik esmaeili ² , Zahra Kharazi mohammadvandi azar ³

1 - Department communications, science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department communications, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department communications, science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-01-31 Accepted : 2018-06-18 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: Media, rumors, National media, mobile networks,

Abstract :

The suspicion and low level of trust in the national media cause people to become more aware of non-media sources, including social networks and foreign media, and as a result of this, they create doubts and Ultimately, it's a rumor among people.Regarding the importance of the subject, the present study was conducted using fieldwork, scrolling technique, questionnaire research tool and SPSS software to investigate the relationship between the use of national media and rumored belief in mobile networks among Ahwaz people as The main goal is. The statistical population of this research is all residents aged 15 years and above of Ahwaz city. Using Formal Cochran, 384 of them have been studied as sample size.According to the findings, there was a rapid shift in the transmission of national media news (P = -0.290), national media neutrality in the transmission of news (P = -0.250), use of reliable sources of material (P = -0.345) ), Trust in the national media (P = 0.466) and censorship in the national media (P = 0.398) with rumored belief in mobile networks are significant; therefore, all the research hypotheses are confirmed. Based on the regression results, the above five variables have been able to explain significant changes in rumored belief variable in mobile networks by 0.36 (R2 = 0.36).