A Study of the Effect of Persian-Language Satellite Channels on Identity;A Meta-Analysis Approach

Considering the increase of social researches and the existence of contradictory results on the effect of Persian language satellite channels on identity, this research seeks to study such articles in order to find a common explanation among the contradictory results. The research conducted by meta-analysis method. The statistical population consists of all studies that have been published from 2001 to the end of the first six months of 2020 on the impact of Persian-language satellite channels on identity, then 74 studies were selected and analyzed by CMA2 software. The results showed that those articles studied the indicators of religious, national, cultural, ethnic, social, gender, and linguistic identity. According to the results of meta-analysis, Persian-language channels, on the one hand, have strengthened the ethnic identity among the Iranian ethnic groups and, on the other hand, have created grounds for weakening the religious, social, national and cultural identity of Iranians.