فاطمه محمدی زاده

With the spread of virtual social networks, the ways of constructing identity in adolescence have undergone a transformation and these networks have become tools to represent "self. The main goal of this research is the cognition of symbolic action among Iranian teenage users and quality of their identity representation on Instagram social network. For this purpose by using semiotic analysis, the posts, stories and highlights shared on ۳۵ pages belonging to Iranian adolescent, has been investigated. The findings of the research show that self-expression has representing form and identity expression through "self-presentation" is the dominant form of identity representation and other types of identity have emerged through it. Instagram social network has helped to spread the networked individualism, has made family networked, and in general, teenage users have used it to strengthen their family identity. Authenticity and ethnic identity are important for teenagers on Instagram and they have expressed their ethnic identity through clothing, music, poems and language (or dialect). The territorial dimension of national identity and cognitive and emotional dimensions of religious identity has been strengthened and the value dimension of religious identity is weakened. Gender identity is also represented through the feminine make-up of boys, seductive posture and clothing of girls, and protesting the status of women. In general, it can be said that, on Instagram with orientation the entire flow of photography to present a fluent narrative of person's life, Is formed a different type of identity construction and a space for creation fluid and transitory image identities for Iranian adolescents.