A Review of How Religious Symbols are Represented in Instagram Pages of Resistant and Obstinate Channels Simultaneous to Corona Outbreak in Iran

Among present media in cyberspace with the duty of informing, Instagram pages have unique role. Due to their ideological dependence on their origins, these pages look at societies’ developments and events from different intellectual angels, and reflect them with particular methods in line with their aims through highlighting them. The present paper seeks to answer the question of how religious symbols have been represented in Instagram pages of International, VOA, Persian BBC and Persian Israel channels from 30 of Bahman to 23 of Esfand in 1398 simultaneous to corona outbreak. To answer the question, the data and concepts discussed in Instagram pages of these channels simultaneous to corona outbreak have ben analyzed and categorized. The findings show that the most important practical strategy of these opponent channels was using the technique of satisfying the audience and inspiring meanings to them which mostly target audiences’ religious beliefs and views, manage their psyche and feelings like happiness, sadness, despair, fear, etc., and use a lot of very intricate and delicate methods and tricks. The analysis of media messages (posts) shows that religion is considered the main enemy of western media and their masters. Through downgrading the position of religion, these channels pursue their particular ideological, economic, political, social aims among others, and influence their audiences’ interpretations by providing a prefabricated framework. They even teach their audiences how to think about religion, justify and renovate West’s profile by influencing public opinion in long term, and introduce desantification and desacralization of religion as a solution.