The Role of Media Literacy in Preserving and Promoting Youth's Religious Identity

Media literacy is very influential in shaping the identity of human interactions; in general, when one interacts with another, one finds his / her identity as a member of society. On the other hand, with the advent of new communication technologies, there was a radical change in human communication and communication and identity was defined in the context of social interaction, but in the contemporary world where human beings have gone beyond the industrial society into the post-industrial space, the question of identity And the ethical and value-driven issues have come to a head, leading to the emergence of all kinds of concerns, psychological and social unrest.In the meantime, religion plays an essential role in human civilization and in identifying human and human society. Although religion, like language and race, is a branch of culture, religion can be the first source of identity in a society.Since the transfer of values ​​through communication, the emergence of new types of communication technologies is also undergoing fundamental transformations, which have led to a crisis in contemporary Iranian youth without the knowledge of religious identity.It seems that the only way to avoid these effects is to find the basic lost self - spirituality and religious identity - as soon as possible and to discover its true identity, without having the knowledge to face it. These means of communication are not realized because religious identity is defined around issues such as the geographical boundary, land, religion and religion, beliefs and cultural traditions and common language.On the other hand, access to virtual society leads to greater socialization and higher levels of socialization; therefore, the need for media literacy as a weapon to counter the emerging ideologies and behaviors of social actors.In this research, based on the main research question whether media literacy has been effective in preserving and promoting youth religious identity, it has been done by descriptive-analytical interview method. The findings of the study indicate that the use of media - especially virtual social networks - without the knowledge and skills of media literacy causes changes in the level of youth's religious identity, and by altering or replacing other factors, the meaning of identity changes. They have.