Document Type : REVIEW PAPER

Author

• Mohammad Javad Mohsinzadeh (Iran)

PhD Student in Department of Culture and Communication, Islamic Azad University (Central Tehran Branch), Tehran, Iran

Abstract

With the beginning of the third millennium AD and the development and growth of new information and communication technologies and also with the presence and expansion of media in the public sphere and ways of life, a framework has been provided that education, culture, politics and human society around communication and media in the context. Cyberspace flows. On the other hand, 21st century man, due to his busy schedule in the modern age and not having enough time to attend face-to-face training courses, has needed a new style of education called virtual education, which is now spreading around the world. This research, which has been done with a qualitative method of descriptive-survey, library and participatory observation, has been done with the aim of pathology of religious education and Islamic sciences in cyberspace and providing solutions for its promotion. Also, theoretical foundations for scientific explanation of research based on religious teachings on the importance of education, learning and propaganda, and in the field of communication, based on communication theories of dissemination and innovation by Everett Rogers, advertising as a discourse of knowledge-power by Michel Foucault, social maps of communication. Harold LaSol and Charles Wright, the role of Wilber Schramm's mass media, the theory of effective adult education, and the role of graphic communication. The research results show that according to the new communication structure in the era of communication and information technology; ﻣﺠﺎ has some function, opportunity, appropriate capacity and ﻧﻘﺶ influence in a new style of distance and e-learning in the field of religious education; However, due to the infancy of religious education in cyberspace, it is necessary to identify the harms and weaknesses with proper planning in order to organize and solve the existing challenges of this opportunity to fulfill the Supreme Leader's motto regarding cyberspace literacy, goals. Be used in education, culture, propaganda, and the revival and expansion of Islamic civilization.

Keywords

• Religious Education
• Cyberspace
• Communication Theories
• Media Literacy
• Mass Media

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Main Subjects

• Religion and Cyberspace