The preventive role of social media capital on delinquency in the context of new technologies during the Corona epidemic

During the COVID-19 epidemic, due to the increasing influx of users to cyberspace and its use, the need to teach the components of social media capital or media literacy to control and reduce cybercrime is an essential requirement for users, especially young audiences doubled. The primary purpose of writing this article is to investigate the impact of the components of social media capital from the perspective of academics in reducing crimes and harms of cyberspace and socio-cultural factors in the context of new media. The research was conducted by survey method, and the data collection method was a questionnaire. The statistical population includes students studying in the academic year 1401-1400, of whom 250 have been selected for the research sample using Cochran's formula.Findings show that increasing the ability of users in society, based on promoting literacy based on culture, ethics, justice, and conscious and critical understanding of the nature of mass media and techniques used by media producers on the individual and society to reduce cybercrime is effective. The study's findings show a direct relationship between understanding the content of messages, awareness of the hidden purposes of messages, conscious selection of messages, analysis of media messages, rationality and critical view of messages as components of social media capital with reducing cybercrime statistics.