The Effects of Social Network Sites on Ethnical Identity In the Students of Tehran Universities

This paper aims to explore the effects of Social Network Sites (SNSs) on ethnical identity in students of Tehran universities. SNSs have played an important role in the political, social, cultural and even economic events in recent years, so studying them and their effects is a necessary. Following such rationale, we assess the effects of these sites on ethnical identity. Reviewing exiting literature shows that ethnical identity includes 4 dimensions: ethnical identification, ethnical culture belonging, ethnical community commitment, and political dimension. Also we used a combination of purpose and snowball sampling methods to gather the research sample, and research is done using online questionnaire. Facebook was chosen as a research field due to its popularity. Results show that there is a relation between SNSs using and ethnical identity. Despite the existence of this relationship we should mention that this correlation is weak.