Investigating Iranian Women’s Status in Cyberspace: A Study of Instagram Pages: Concentrating on Social Security Approach

Nowadays, Cyberspace has become a public, definite and globalized world. The rapid expansion of this space with its high coverage capacity has brought about profound cultural, social, and political impacts. To that effect, its role and impressiveness dimensions across the entire community, including the security arena cannot be underestimated. Managing this enormous and complex environment requires appropriate policy making, planning, content generating, as well as precise, proper and careful surveillance. Otherwise, cultural and social issues will become political and security crises will engulf the entire community. In the meantime, women, due to their gender characteristics have taken different positions in this space. The present article has examined the status of Iranian women on Instagram pages, while concentrating on a social and security approach. The methodology of this research was qualitative content analysis, and has used Mayring 8-step model for identifying themes and sub-themes. (N=150) representing superior pages of Iran’s Instagram which are tracked in terms of number of followers, comments, and likes within a specific time frame. The data obtained from the study were analyzed using the qualitative theme analysis method and the "Nvivo" software. Validity of interviews coding were approved by Kapa theme coefficient. As a result of data analysis, 7 themes and 12 subthemes in relation with the social security issues of the social network of Instagram were studied and identified.Keywords: Executive Performance, Honorary Police, Participation, Police, the West-Tehran Special Police Command.