Mrs Reyhaneh Agharajabi, Dr Mohammadreza Rasouli, Dr Seyed Mahmoud Nejati Hoseini,
Volume 0, Issue 0 (3-1921)
Abstract
In this research, an attempt has been made to investigate the cultural geography, especially the religiosity styles of Iranian users in the Instagram space.
The approach of this research was inductive and the research was carried out using netnography or online ethnography, which is one of the qualitative methods. Based on this, Instagram pages with religious content that had many followers and the page manager to whom the page was attributed was one of the prominent people in the field of religious activities, were considered as the studied community and finally 14 pages that included different religious tendencies were selected as samples. The posts, comments and content published on these Instagram pages were considered as the unit of analysis. Coding was used for data analysis, which was done using MaxQda software. After the ritual dimension, the moral dimension was the most repeated. Finally, the typology of religiosity that represented the religious behavior of users was identified in 9 types. The influence of virtual space as a place and geographical space had an impact on the types of religiosity and religious perceptions of users. And each person represented a type of religiosity in the soft cities of the virtual space based on the accumulations of the space around him and the environmental perceptions in the religious market presented in the space of cultural geography of Instagram.
The emphasis on rituals in the culture of religiosity and dimensions of religiosity could represent a type of ritualistic religiosity. Along with this type of religiosity, traditionalist religiosity was also observed, which is supported by the official discourse of religiosity in the society. Rational religiosity, self-referential religiosity, epistemic religiosity, mystical religiosity, mixed religiosity, emotional religiosity, and fundamentalist religiosity were other types of religiosity that showed that religious culture and religious behavior found multiple and diverse representations in cyberspace. They represent the plurality of religious values and beliefs in social groups. In this research, the profound effects of the geography of virtual space on religious culture were visible.
Ziba Kadkhodaei, Hamidreza Rakhshani Nasab, Mojtaba Rakhshani Nasab,
Volume 0, Issue 0 (3-1921)
Abstract
One of the contemporary approaches to tourism is the use of virtual space and information technology in tourism, which has created a new attitude to tourism and removed the boundaries between the real world and virtual space. In this regard, the aim of the current research is to investigate the capabilities of virtual space in the development of tourism in Konarak County. This research is "applied" in terms of its purpose and "descriptive-analytical" in terms of its nature and method, and the method of collecting information is "documents and survey (questionnaire)". The statistical population under study is in the field of experts, and 35 people were selected as a sample using the two-stage Delphi method. The content validity of the questionnaire was calculated and confirmed by the professors and its reliability with Cronbach's alpha test at the level of 0.852. To analyze the data, a sample T-Tech test, path analysis and DEMATEL technique were used. The results of the sample T-Tech test showed that the virtual space with an average of 4.22 is more than the base limit (3), so the virtual space has influenced the tourism development of Konarak County. The results of the path analysis indicate that information technology infrastructure with a factor of /608 has the greatest impact and e-commerce with a factor of 250/ has the least impact on the tourism development of Konarak County. The results of the DEMATEL technique showed that among the indicators affecting the tourism of Konarak County, the telecommunication platform index with the value of 5.971 has the most interaction and the information index with the value of 5.671 has the least interaction, the social network index with the value of 1.402 is the most effective factor. And the telecommunication platform index with the value of 2.088 is the most influential factor. According to the results, it can be concluded that by creating technological infrastructure and introducing the attractions of Konarak County through programs such as (TV, news sites, etc.), an important step was taken in the direction of the development of this city.
