Investigating the impact of media policies and consumption on cultural capital and lifestyle: the moderating role of media literacy

Today, controlling and directing public opinion can be considered as one of the main missions of the media. In this research, a model of the use of media by those in power with the aim of influencing the cultural capital and lifestyle of society is presented and tested. The statistical population of the study was students of one of the public universities in the country, 280 of whom were selected as a sample. Library and field methods (questionnaire) were used to collect information. In the descriptive statistics section, SPSS software version 26 was used to analyze demographic information. To test the research hypotheses, inferential statistics in the form of structural equation modeling and SMART PLS version 3 software were used. According to the research results, there is a direct and significant relationship between policy makers and media consumption, media consumption and cultural capital and cultural capital with the lifestyle of society; But media literacy does not moderate the impact of the media on cultural capital. The results of this research have applications for the media and policy makers in this field, the most important of which are mentioned in the final part of the research.