Formal and Semantic Differences in the Clothing of Women Presenters of IRIB on TV and Instagram

This research is based on this assumption that the ways people are represented in TV are different with the ways they are represented on social media such as Instagram because the nature of social media is different with the nature of mass media. Thus the users of social media when using these media to represent their daily lives, actively use these media to show unofficial (informal) pictures of their lives while when they attend in a T.V program, they are represented very formally. The interaction on social media like Instagram is very intimate than in mass media like T.V. One of the issues to study is to find the differences between representing the people clothing in social media and Television. Some of Iranian Veiled TV presenters interacts to their audiences on Instagram; a considerable issue on the re-presentation of the mentioned women on Instagram is their dress. This study is to analyze the depiction of veiled Women TV presenters on their dress on Instagram through analyzing their shared pictures. In addition to analyzing the way of selected women dress re-presentation, the paper is to respond whether their dress in TV is different to unofficial space such as Instagram? To review the literature, Giddens approach on the identity & Goffman theory on the self- presentation in everyday life were reviewed. This research is qualitative in method applied, and to analyze the Instagram pages of women TV presenters, nethnography method has been applied. The sample selected to study by nethnography method consists of 7 pages of Iranian Veiled TV presenters. The analysis of veiled TV presenters shared pictures in Instagram shows that their clothing on Instagram is different in terms of diversity and color with their represented dress in Television programs and some TV presenters advertise some dress goods in their Instagram pages.