Meta-Synthesis of Designing the Model of Dimensions of Virtual Social Media Damages

Virtual social media is one of the most important and effective social media that has been able to affect the private relationships of citizens in the form of everyday and practical tools. In addition to countless advantages, this space also brings many disadvantages, which sometimes cause serious harm to users due to the lack of familiarity with the virtual space. Therefore, the importance of identifying and investigating the harms of virtual social media has been taken into consideration; In such a way that many research articles are written and published on this subject every year, but due to the fact that these articles were conducted with different statistical population and different geographical, economic, social and cultural conditions, they have faced different results. On this basis, the current research has tried to identify and classify the dimensions of these damages using the meta-synthesis method, and finally, design and present the final model of the dimensions of cyber space damages; Therefore, the aim of the research is to identify and classify the damages of virtual space, and to design a new model to understand the dimensions of the damages of virtual social media. For this reason, the results of previous researches in the years 1390 to 1400 were analyzed using the meta-synthesis method. By checking the quality of the articles, among the 54 articles, 42 were finally selected for analysis. The findings of the research showed that cultural dimensions, social networks, religious institutions, personality and deality are the most important vulnerable dimensions of virtual social media.