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Danesh Nari H, Tabarsi F H, Hejazi M. (2024). Criminal Identification on Instagram; A Case Study of Followers’ Comments on the Pages of Villains. refahj. 24(92), : 7 doi:10.32598/refahj.24.92.3427.1
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Introduction: The increase of activities in the virtual space and the growth of the third generation of social networks have changed the attitude of public opinion in the realm of crime, that is, many unethical behaviors that have been criminalized by the legislator are considered permissible behaviors in social networks. For this reason, public opinion in social networks not only does not oppose unethical behaviors, but also sometimes supports them. With the growing progress of the Instagram social network and the increase in the number of users, the micro-celebrities of this platform are increasing. Despite the fact that Instagram microcelebrities are placed in different categories such as models, footballers, actors, rich people, singers, weiners, bloggers, etc. However, a new category of Instagram microcelebrities are criminals. These people, who are known as gangsters in the popular literature of public opinion on Instagram, have a criminal lifestyle. This means that committing crimes in various forms such as insults, assaults, group fights, etc. is a part of their daily culture. While Instagram micro-celebrities attract audiences for reasons such as beauty, wealth, intelligence, creativity, etc., but the tendency of some members of the society towards criminals in the last few years on Instagram shows the evolution of public opinion's attitude towards criminal phenomena because the content of the pages of Instagram gandellats shows that some people in the society not only do not consider their behavior to be ugly, but also seek to imitate gandellats. Considering the importance of public opinion's attitude towards criminal phenomena and the important role of cyberspace in the formation and evolution of public opinion, this research aims to use the method of quantitative content analysis to find the factors affecting the tendency of public opinion to commit crime in the pages of Instagram chat rooms. to check Therefore, the main issue of the current research is what factors cause some members of society to consider criminals as their heroes? Can the evolution in the concept of crime and the tendency to delinquency cause chaos in the cyberspace?, and finally, what are the factors influencing the mythmaking of delinquents and imitating their behavior? In order to better explain the subject, in the following, the methodology and theoretical foundations are presented, and by using these two components, the most important findings of the research are presented. Finally, the results of the research are presented.
Method: The research method in this study is quantitative content analysis. Content analysis as a research technique includes specialized methods in scientific data processing. The purpose of analysis, like all research techniques, is to provide knowledge, a new insight, a picture of reality and a guide to action. Based on the definition, "Content analysis is a method of obtaining information in order to discover social issues in which, through the analysis of the given content (text or image), comments are made about the relations of origin, the sender's intention, its effect on the recipient, or on the social situation." Therefore, content analysis is "any kind of inference technique through regular and objective knowledge of message characteristics". According to some other opinions, "Content analysis is a collection of more and more precise methodological tools that has continuously improved and is used for many different kinds of speech". The method of content analysis is a descriptive and descriptive method that, in addition to descriptive analysis, brings the researcher to knowledge and finally gives causal analysis. Therefore, in addition to presenting the image of reality, it penetrates deeply into the subject and identifies the factors. If the researcher remains at the surface, he will actually be deprived of reaching the causal knowledge, and as a result, he will not find the causal network, and in the same proportion, he will stay away from deep sociology. With this description, the more the researcher tries to reach the depth of the subject, the more reliable and practical the result of his research will be. In the method of quantitative content analysis, a large amount of data is analyzed briefly. In this method, a set of documents or texts can be extracted, counted and classified. Based on this, this research, at first, using the purposeful sampling method, identified the pages of ten Instagram stories and made their last three posts as criteria. In each post, one hundred comments were studied. In total, the study of three thousand comments became the basis for coding and categorization.
Findings: In the light of the theoretical foundations presented, in this section, the content analysis of the comments that give rise to the theoretical foundations are presented. Based on this, microcelebrity as a hero, encouragement and support, criminal simulation and identification with the criminal are the most important findings from the content analysis of the comments in this research.
Conclusion: Examining Gandelat's pages and analyzing the content of existing posts and comments showed that Gandelat's fans initially consider them as their legend and hero. For this reason, social support for Gandelat takes place in different formats. Gendelates who understand and receive social support achieve individual flourishing and independence. More precisely, these individuals reach a degree of independence that is considered a source of social support. Therefore, it can be said that social support is a structural process in which individuals understand and use the sources of support, reach personal independence and become a source of support in an evolutionary process. However, the basic feature of the myth is that it provides an example for the zeal of its fans. Therefore, according to myth-making and social support, people imitate the examples provided by Gandelat. Modeling first includes external effects such as the type of behavior, speech, covering and performing certain movements. Despite the fact that heroization and social support take an outward appearance at the beginning, but in the next step, it affects the personality dimensions of the fans. This thing, which is referred to as identification with the Gandelats, refers to the process in which a person mixes his identity and personality with the identity of the Gandelats in order to realize his wishes and dreams. To be more precise, some people due to personality deficiencies and some people due to the love of being gangsters, reach the stage of identification with criminals in order to get closer to their desired goals through their connection with gangsters. It is at this stage that people reach the assimilation stage and internalize patterns.
Ethical Considerations
Authors’ contributions
All authors contributed in producing of the research.
Funding
In the present study, all expenses were borne by the author and he did not have any sponsors.
Conflicts of interest
The authors declared no conflict of interest.
Acknowledgments
In this article, all rights relating to references are cited and resources are carefully listed.
Method: The research method in this study is quantitative content analysis. Content analysis as a research technique includes specialized methods in scientific data processing. The purpose of analysis, like all research techniques, is to provide knowledge, a new insight, a picture of reality and a guide to action. Based on the definition, "Content analysis is a method of obtaining information in order to discover social issues in which, through the analysis of the given content (text or image), comments are made about the relations of origin, the sender's intention, its effect on the recipient, or on the social situation." Therefore, content analysis is "any kind of inference technique through regular and objective knowledge of message characteristics". According to some other opinions, "Content analysis is a collection of more and more precise methodological tools that has continuously improved and is used for many different kinds of speech". The method of content analysis is a descriptive and descriptive method that, in addition to descriptive analysis, brings the researcher to knowledge and finally gives causal analysis. Therefore, in addition to presenting the image of reality, it penetrates deeply into the subject and identifies the factors. If the researcher remains at the surface, he will actually be deprived of reaching the causal knowledge, and as a result, he will not find the causal network, and in the same proportion, he will stay away from deep sociology. With this description, the more the researcher tries to reach the depth of the subject, the more reliable and practical the result of his research will be. In the method of quantitative content analysis, a large amount of data is analyzed briefly. In this method, a set of documents or texts can be extracted, counted and classified. Based on this, this research, at first, using the purposeful sampling method, identified the pages of ten Instagram stories and made their last three posts as criteria. In each post, one hundred comments were studied. In total, the study of three thousand comments became the basis for coding and categorization.
Findings: In the light of the theoretical foundations presented, in this section, the content analysis of the comments that give rise to the theoretical foundations are presented. Based on this, microcelebrity as a hero, encouragement and support, criminal simulation and identification with the criminal are the most important findings from the content analysis of the comments in this research.
Conclusion: Examining Gandelat's pages and analyzing the content of existing posts and comments showed that Gandelat's fans initially consider them as their legend and hero. For this reason, social support for Gandelat takes place in different formats. Gendelates who understand and receive social support achieve individual flourishing and independence. More precisely, these individuals reach a degree of independence that is considered a source of social support. Therefore, it can be said that social support is a structural process in which individuals understand and use the sources of support, reach personal independence and become a source of support in an evolutionary process. However, the basic feature of the myth is that it provides an example for the zeal of its fans. Therefore, according to myth-making and social support, people imitate the examples provided by Gandelat. Modeling first includes external effects such as the type of behavior, speech, covering and performing certain movements. Despite the fact that heroization and social support take an outward appearance at the beginning, but in the next step, it affects the personality dimensions of the fans. This thing, which is referred to as identification with the Gandelats, refers to the process in which a person mixes his identity and personality with the identity of the Gandelats in order to realize his wishes and dreams. To be more precise, some people due to personality deficiencies and some people due to the love of being gangsters, reach the stage of identification with criminals in order to get closer to their desired goals through their connection with gangsters. It is at this stage that people reach the assimilation stage and internalize patterns.
Ethical Considerations
Authors’ contributions
All authors contributed in producing of the research.
Funding
In the present study, all expenses were borne by the author and he did not have any sponsors.
Conflicts of interest
The authors declared no conflict of interest.
Acknowledgments
In this article, all rights relating to references are cited and resources are carefully listed.
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Received: 2023/03/4 | Accepted: 2023/09/26 | Published: 2024/05/3
Received: 2023/03/4 | Accepted: 2023/09/26 | Published: 2024/05/3
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