نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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عنوان مقاله English
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With the expansion and spread of social networks such as Instagram, a new generation of working children has emerged, so-called "Instagram workers"; Stylishly dressed working children who are engaged in work and virtual business in the mass of virtual space pages such as Instagram. Therefore, the main goal of this research is to sociologically analyze the social contexts of the formation and emergence of this phenomenon in the society in 1402. Grounded theory qualitative research method was used in this research and the studied community was selected through purposeful sampling, which in fact are the parents of children who, as their employers, manage their work-advertising activities on the Instagram virtual network, which numbered 20 parents through in-depth semi-structured interviews. They answered the researcher's questions in a structured way.The type of activity and work done by children on the Instagram social network is classified into three categories: a) advertising work, b) performance work and c) service work. A total of 235 concepts, 20 sub-categories and 4 main categories were extracted from the data of this research after the three stages of open, central and selective coding. The main categories are: "Reconstruction of parent's identity, parent-centered ultimate desirability, early yielding children and unstable conditions" and finally, by combining the obtained models, the core category of "virtual slave child" was introduced. Parents-employers who do virtual life-business in social networks, turn their children into a decorative-show object and an income-generating tool. The slave child of a show that is exposed to the virtual buying and selling of users, followers and buyers by being seen and attracting continuous attention.Also, in the typology resulting from the results of this research, three types of children were analyzed: precocious children, showcase or decorative children, and halo children. are identified
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