The Impact of Social Networking Functions on the Orientations of the Political Culture of Academic Users in Iran (Case Study Viber and Telegram)

The role played by the tangible role of various types of social networking in Iran in recent years has created a general feeling that with the speed of technical development of these media, the pace of social change will also increase as different functions play a good role in these networks in the Iranian society. Getting them almost impossible. But whether these functions affect the orientations of the political culture of the academic community, is a question that the present research has combined in a mixed and descriptive-analytical level, which has been answered by the professors of the universities of eight metropolises of the country in a survey method. By analyzing the data obtained using Tawkandal test and Spearman correlation, the direction and level of relationship between the two variables of the research concluded that three functions of development of monitoring capabilities, convergence of social communication and evaluation of Viber and Telegram on six components of eight The component of political culture of the users of the university was effective in Iran, among which the effect of these functions on the critique of the moderate political system and the impact on the components of distrust, intellectual absolutism, alienation, extremism and domination of weak religious values were positive, and two components of non-legal behaviors and Self-directional effect of A. These functions are not accepted.