Mass Media's Role in Strengthening National Unity

In recent years, studying direct and indirect mass media's roles and effects on national interest has gained an unusual importance. An increasing growth in information and communicative technologies materialized in mass media have influenced different areas of mankind life. Although mass media, because of the dominance of great powers, may cause threats to some societies, it may also put forward opportunities for people of different societies. Creating national solidarity and unity among different societies by means of strengthening factors such as religion, belief, language and ethnicity is an important role of mass media in today's world. The result of the study signifies the role of mass media in promoting national solidarity and unity.