An Examination of the Level of Media Literacy and the Ability to Produce Religious Content in Cyberspace (Case study: students of Qom Islamic Seminary)

Document Type : The Quarterly Jornal

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1 Researcher of the Islamic Republic Broadcasting Center, Qom, Qom, Iran (Corresponding author).

2 PhD in Social Communication Sciences, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Faculty Member of the Faculty of Humanities, Hazrat-e Masoumeh University. Qom. IranQom , Iran.

Abstract

The clerics familiarity with media skills, in other words, acquiring media literacy for students of Islamic Seminary, has allowed them to deal with the message consciously in order to critically examine it and investigate the reasons for producing the message according to the attitude of media administrators and finally, by producing content in social networks, they use the media as a powerful and effective tool and an irreplaceable opportunity to guide and direct the audience to Sharia. Therefore, this study has been conducted to examine level of media literacy of Islamic Seminary students and identify their ability to produce religious content in social networks. The research method was survey, a questionnaire technique was used to collect data, and SPSS software was used for analysis. The findings suggested that most Islamic Seminary students are above average in terms of media literacy and critical thinking, and their ability to produce content is average and expected. In addition, there is a significant correlation and direct relationship between the variables of content production ability and media literacy (r = 0.391, sig. = 0.000). The results of multivariate regression also showed that the critical view has the highest correlation with media literacy, but the content production ability has the lowest correlation with this variable.

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Journal of Islam and Social Studies
Volume 9, Issue 35 - Serial Number 35
ExecutiveExpert
January 2022
Pages 206-240

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  • Receive Date: 16 January 2021
  • Revise Date: 18 August 2021
  • Accept Date: 17 November 2021

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