REVIEW PAPER
Religion and Cyberspace
Safora Shokohi (Iran); Parisa Asgharzade Talebi (Iran)
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Cyberspace - Internet - is a new generation of social relations space. The positive and negative effects and consequences of cyberspace as a new phenomenon in human societies are constantly expanding. Cyberspace is a situation where the storage and transfer of information is very cheap and simple; Therefore, ...
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Cyberspace - Internet - is a new generation of social relations space. The positive and negative effects and consequences of cyberspace as a new phenomenon in human societies are constantly expanding. Cyberspace is a situation where the storage and transfer of information is very cheap and simple; Therefore, it is both a threat and an opportunity for the educational and moral atmosphere of the society. In this challenging environment, one must actively enter the field of information production and transmission in order to turn threats into opportunities or to reduce threats against opportunities. In the present era, which has turned the cyberspace of the world into a small village and connects the people of the world from different parts with different cultures and beliefs, the educational issues of children have faced challenges. In contrast, one of the effective tools to preserve and revive Islamic beliefs and education is cyberspace. The purpose of this study was to investigate the dimensions and capacities of cyberspace in order to raise children. This research with descriptive-analytical method and using library and Internet resources seeks to study and explain the various dimensions of cyberspace and education from the field of Islamic education to conceptualize education in cyberspace and its role as an important tool in today's societies. The results show that cyberspace has many potentials that if the conditions are provided and its creation will have significant effects on the formation of personality, especially children, and can be well used to achieve high religious goals.
REVIEW PAPER
Religion and Cyberspace
Hadi Jafarian (Iran); Hesam al-Din Moayedian (Iran)
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The entry of technology into the field of information and communication has transformed all aspects of human life to the extent that the transfer of educational data is accepted electronically and through a virtual environment by adopting a modern approach and removing many common limitations in physical ...
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The entry of technology into the field of information and communication has transformed all aspects of human life to the extent that the transfer of educational data is accepted electronically and through a virtual environment by adopting a modern approach and removing many common limitations in physical education. Thus, the present study analyzed the effect of virtual education on the expression of religious concepts for children and evaluated its effect on the religious beliefs of the aforementioned group. Data collection tool was a four-level questionnaire taken from the Glock and Stark questionnaire of religious beliefs, which was distributed among 82 parents of children aged 7-12 years working in the police force of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. The implementation of this research was by adopting a descriptive-evaluation method, semi-experimental and pre-test-post-test, and inferential statistics including correlated t-test were used to analyze the data. The results show that the components of religious attitudes and beliefs, religious information, religious practices and experiences by children have improved significantly compared to before the virtual education; But this educational method has not had any effect on performing duties and abandoning religious taboos.
REVIEW PAPER
Religion and Cyberspace
Shojaat Ali (Pakistan); Mohammad Nazir Irfani (Pakistan)
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The family is the most important social institution with permeable boundaries and the cyberspace has been able to penetrate; thus, the entry of cyberspace into the family center has caused harm to the norms and roles of family members, especially children. The purpose of this study was to investigate ...
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The family is the most important social institution with permeable boundaries and the cyberspace has been able to penetrate; thus, the entry of cyberspace into the family center has caused harm to the norms and roles of family members, especially children. The purpose of this study was to investigate the damages of cyberspace in children's education in which it examined the negative effects and consequences of the Internet on family life ethics. The research method was also descriptive-analytical and the method of collecting the materials was in the form of libraries and searches in databases and sources of internet scientific information. The results show that the expansion of cyberspace has caused various damages to children's education, including ethical harms such as easy access to unethical resources, weakening religious beliefs and instilling doubts and conflicting values, personality traits such as addiction to space. Virtual, social isolation and waste of time; and family harm, such as reduced family relationships, changing patterns of interaction between parents and children, the loss of power balance in the family, and the generation gap. Therefore, parental guidance and supervision along with recognizing and aware of the damages to cyberspace is the best way to remedy it.
REVIEW PAPER
Religion and Cyberspace
Maryam Abbasi (Iran)
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Adolescence is considered a sensitive age in causing rapid physical, psychological, social, cultural and cognitive changes, as well as the development of coping behaviors and responses to environmental needs. During this period, adolescents, in order to be able to prove themselves and their position ...
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Adolescence is considered a sensitive age in causing rapid physical, psychological, social, cultural and cognitive changes, as well as the development of coping behaviors and responses to environmental needs. During this period, adolescents, in order to be able to prove themselves and their position in society and the family and to have a role and position for themselves, may resort to high-risk and low-risk behaviors, including high-risk behaviors, especially in the present age, addiction. To the Internet. Cyberspace - today everything is related to computers, information and the Internet; An environment in which the mass media have the greatest cultural impact among all new tools and techniques. In the meantime, watching satellite programs has provided an opportunity or an arena in which the issues of public life are manifested day by day; Therefore, satellite programs are the place of change in culture and affect culture and lifestyle in different ways. Thus, cyberspace and satellite have occupied a place in society that is increasingly - both nationally and internationally - to the extent that the content of satellite programs on the lifestyles and public tastes in society. Has been affected. Accordingly, in the present study, an attempt was made to optimize the use of cyberspace and satellite by recognizing the specific architecture of the Internet and accurate knowledge of the active environment, and to reduce its harm to adolescents.
REVIEW PAPER
Religion and Cyberspace
Mohammad Jafar Esfandiari (Iran)
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With the advent of new media technologies in recent decades, the process of family mediaization is gradually observed. On the other hand, the change in the physical nature of the new mobile media from something belonging to the public space to the private space creates a new world of communication called ...
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With the advent of new media technologies in recent decades, the process of family mediaization is gradually observed. On the other hand, the change in the physical nature of the new mobile media from something belonging to the public space to the private space creates a new world of communication called home-to-shoulder communication, which contrasts with the generality of the realm of the home and the use of new media. Along with other factors and elements of the modern social world, it leads to a kind of individualistic character. Some theorists, meanwhile, argue that the media will not necessarily transform the communication traditions that govern traditional institutions such as religion and the family; Rather, it can transform them and give them new life. This means that new media technologies are not inherently and algebraically in conflict with the traditional communication structures and oral communication traditions that govern societies; Therefore, we can talk about the convergence of new communication technologies with traditional institutions and communications such as family and religion, but the realization of this institutional convergence between the family and new media - deeply - depends on the media participation of parents; Therefore, many researchers and policymakers with a background in media literacy have turned to convergent and institutionalized approaches that can organize children's media encounters and expenditures in the informal context of family and family relationships. To achieve this, a set of participatory support mechanisms and methods can be designed and implemented for parental involvement; Mechanisms, the major part of which is related to the environmental and contextual conditions of media reception and consumption, and the other part is focused on the content of new media. Based on this and in order of priority, two participatory supportive approaches will be applicable for parents; Textual and hypertextual mediation. Accordingly, the most important purpose of textual mediation is direct and text-oriented guidance of children to deal with inappropriate content available to them; The most important goal of hypertext mediation is to shift the individual scale of new personal media to a collective and family quality by relying on positive and indirect environmental factors. In this research, an attempt has been made to pursue the challenge of new media in contrast to family values on the path to a convergent and participatory approach.
REVIEW PAPER
Religion and Cyberspace
Behnam Reihani (Iran)
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Education is one of the human affairs that has been important because of its prominent role in all matters of human life; So that it has always been considered by experts and each of them has emphasized it with a statement. In general, dealing with education, both in terms of multidimensionality and ...
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Education is one of the human affairs that has been important because of its prominent role in all matters of human life; So that it has always been considered by experts and each of them has emphasized it with a statement. In general, dealing with education, both in terms of multidimensionality and special complexities at the theoretical and practical level, has made it an important and irreplaceable thing. Among these, one of the most influential and at the same time most difficult topics in the field of education is the moral education of adolescents and young people; Therefore, dealing with issues related to ethics and following it, moral education has a high status. Philosophers and scholars in this field have long considered the issue of ethics and even ethics from the perspective of education; If Aristotle considered the end of education as moral education and virtue and Khajeh Nasir considered will and thought as the origin of morality. In addition, the work of foster educators, like other areas of human life, is intertwined with ethical issues, and resolving ethical problems and conflicts in the field of work of these educators - especially in cyberspace - is one of the concerns of the scientific community. This research, which is written based on the methods and goals of applied ethics, is considered as a basis for setting up an ethical charter in cyberspace for educators. The most important discussion in this study is the ethical challenges of educators in cyberspace and exit strategies. This is the challenge.
REVIEW PAPER
Religion and Cyberspace
Ali Nabati (Iran); Dr. Gholam Reza Khadivi Rofogar (Iran)
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The priority for young people is to use social networks in the field of recreation, entertainment and scientific education, respectively; In a way, men use filtering more than women. Testing the research hypotheses shows that there is an inverse and significant relationship between the duration of use ...
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The priority for young people is to use social networks in the field of recreation, entertainment and scientific education, respectively; In a way, men use filtering more than women. Testing the research hypotheses shows that there is an inverse and significant relationship between the duration of use with the Shari'a dimension of the religiosity index and also between the speed of communication with the dimensions of ethics and beliefs of the religiosity index; Also, there is an inverse and significant relationship between the speed of communication with the index of religiosity, while there is no relationship between the other two dimensions with the index of religiosity. In this study, the religiosity variable was measured using the divine worm model and with three dimensions of beliefs, ethics and sharia, the sample size using Cochran's formula was 220 people, which was done by random sampling method and using a standard questionnaire. Research materials have been collected. The results of regression analysis show that in the variable of communication speed on the Sharia index in the variable of religiosity, the duration of use has the most and the least effect on the ethics index of the variable of religiosity, to the extent that the variable of new communication media explains 27% of changes in the index of religiosity.
REVIEW PAPER
Religion and Cyberspace
Dr. Azoz Bentemessek (Tunisia)
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For more than a quarter of a century, the world has been witnessing a scientific and technological revolution that surpassed in its importance, effects and results the eighteenth century industrial revolution in Europe. This revolution was communication and informatics among its most prominent manifestations. ...
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For more than a quarter of a century, the world has been witnessing a scientific and technological revolution that surpassed in its importance, effects and results the eighteenth century industrial revolution in Europe. This revolution was communication and informatics among its most prominent manifestations. Information and communication technology, which contributed to making a very important impact in a very short period of time, and radically in all types of dealings, and ways of thinking and life overwhelmed the traditional patterns that people had known before in everything. This development is considered a natural matter on the basis that any steady growth in the field of science and technology causes confusion to the existing economic, social, political, cultural and educational structures and relations, and from there it becomes imperative for us to take the initiative to develop a systematic, scientific and rational plan to confront this indispensable and indispensable technology. If we want to touch on the archeology of this development in the field of education, education, training and research, we find that its beginnings in the West and in the United States of America go back to the beginning of the eighties of the last century, then in the year 18 the studies related to these fields began to raise a set of important questions and issues that emerged from them. The scientific and technological revolution, as these studies called for the necessity of paying attention to scientific research in the field of e-learning to face the challenges posed by this technological revolution. However, since the mid-nineties of the last century and as a result of the development of the use of the Internet and its widespread use among individuals and educational institutions, whether or not educational, many concepts of this type of education have changed and new terms have appeared, and from here serious thinking began about the possibility of using the Internet in various civil fields, including Especially the field of education. These tremendous technological developments that touched all life activities, as previously mentioned, can they be considered an indication of the end of the traditional or attending educational systems?
REVIEW PAPER
Religion and Cyberspace
Dr. Supratman Supratman (Indonesia)
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According to data from the Association of Indonesian Internet Service Providers that the Indonesian people are the highest internet users in the world. It means that the people of Indonesia are well informed today, including regarding their religious knowledge mostly obtained via the internet. The problem ...
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According to data from the Association of Indonesian Internet Service Providers that the Indonesian people are the highest internet users in the world. It means that the people of Indonesia are well informed today, including regarding their religious knowledge mostly obtained via the internet. The problem are: Many groups of takfiri and terrorists spread their propaganda through cyberspace. Debating on social media has generally more negative effects. Most of those who argue are mutually disparaging, insulting and disbelieving. This paper will examine the role and function of the state as well as religious organizations in spreading religious teachings and values. The state functions are: State is as cyberspace controller and supervisor. State is as donors for religious organizations. Meanwhile the religious organizations have roles and functions that are: To introduce the true teachings and values of Islam. To resist the teachings of takfiri and acts of terrorism that are spread and popularized by an extremist group which their actions are named as teachings and Islamic values. To cooperate with online media from other Islamic countries. As for the object of study of this paper are the conditions in the state of Indonesia both the role of government and Islamic organizations which are representations of Indonesian Muslim society, namely: Nahdatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah. In addition, the organization of a minority group of Muslim in Indonesia is Shia with the name of the organization; Ahlul Bayt of Indonesia.
