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Received: 2019/05/4 | Accepted: 2019/08/14 | Published: 2019/09/7
Received: 2019/05/4 | Accepted: 2019/08/14 | Published: 2019/09/7
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Sajjadian N, Nemati M, Gashtil F. Role of the Place on Information and Communication Technology Effectiveness on Women’s Gender Identity; a Case Study of Ahvaz City, Iran. GeoRes 2019; 34 (3) :413-425
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1- Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran
2- Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran, ahvaz
2- Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran, ahvaz
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Aims & Backgrounds: Gender geographers suggest that the formation of sexual identity is made through place differences. On the other hand ICT with an international world full of unlimited resources is competing with traditional and environmental resources in formation of women’s sexual identity through modernism. Women in Ahvaz like other women in the world are not excluded and are challenging selecting their sexual identity through thousands of traditional and modern resources.
Methodology: This study is in the year 2017 trying to find out that today women’s sexual identity in different neighborhoods of This City is influenced by which resource and how does place or information technology and communication effect on their sexual identity. The nature of this study is applied -theoretical and its method is descriptive – analytical. The basis of this study is the Field of behavioral and gender geography. The data collection method is a researcher made questionnaire and it’s statistical Society are women over the age of 15 in Kianpars, Golestan, Manbaab neighborhoods
Findings: The results of various statistical tests such as Anova,Ttest, Tukey,… showed that the impact of information and communication technology on the sexual identity of women in the neighborhood is not the same and does not follow a specific pattern.But the place variable in this field acts as a moderator variable.Women’s sexual identity is more oriented towards modernity in places of higher levels of development (Kianpars).In second level neighborhoods (Golestan) women’s sexual identity does not show a dominant tendency towards modern or traditional and it is measured at the intermediate level and a combination of these two.But invert level places (Manba Ab) women’s sexual identity tents to oriented weakly towards being traditional.
Conclusion: Spatial values affect women's gender identity building. And the place plays a moderating role in the impact of women on ICT.
Methodology: This study is in the year 2017 trying to find out that today women’s sexual identity in different neighborhoods of This City is influenced by which resource and how does place or information technology and communication effect on their sexual identity. The nature of this study is applied -theoretical and its method is descriptive – analytical. The basis of this study is the Field of behavioral and gender geography. The data collection method is a researcher made questionnaire and it’s statistical Society are women over the age of 15 in Kianpars, Golestan, Manbaab neighborhoods
Findings: The results of various statistical tests such as Anova,Ttest, Tukey,… showed that the impact of information and communication technology on the sexual identity of women in the neighborhood is not the same and does not follow a specific pattern.But the place variable in this field acts as a moderator variable.Women’s sexual identity is more oriented towards modernity in places of higher levels of development (Kianpars).In second level neighborhoods (Golestan) women’s sexual identity does not show a dominant tendency towards modern or traditional and it is measured at the intermediate level and a combination of these two.But invert level places (Manba Ab) women’s sexual identity tents to oriented weakly towards being traditional.
Conclusion: Spatial values affect women's gender identity building. And the place plays a moderating role in the impact of women on ICT.
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