Reza Kazemian
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The use of emoji / emoticon is increasingly popular across the world in different platforms of online communication and they are commonly used in modern text communication as well. According to analyzed data, Iranian internet users would rather use emoji than emoticon due to some reasons, namely, expressive, ...
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The use of emoji / emoticon is increasingly popular across the world in different platforms of online communication and they are commonly used in modern text communication as well. According to analyzed data, Iranian internet users would rather use emoji than emoticon due to some reasons, namely, expressive, practical and aesthetic reasons. This study is set forth to explore whether the use of emoji bears any relationship to the gender and age among Iranian internet users. The result of statistical analysis has patently revealed that women tend to use emoji (both positive and negative) more than men; correspondingly, they are considered more emotional with respect to sentiment analysis. Moreover, the result has demonstrated that women openly express their emotions and love with emoji in social media similar to real life. Concerning age, collected data display that there is an inverse relationship between the age and the frequency of emoji use. In other words, the frequency of the emoji use would be substantially declined by growing older. This study can provide a base for future research most notably those pertaining to machine learning, natural language processing and designing models for predicting online demographical information.
Razie Zakeri Hamane; Mansoure Azam Azade; Maryam GHaziNejad; Susnan Bastani
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The present study aims at extracting the indexes of Iranian users’ of sense of security, using the triangulation method, in the social cyber networks during September 2016 to December 2018. Social networks were included domestic networks such as Soroush, Etâ, etc. And the foreign networks ...
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The present study aims at extracting the indexes of Iranian users’ of sense of security, using the triangulation method, in the social cyber networks during September 2016 to December 2018. Social networks were included domestic networks such as Soroush, Etâ, etc. And the foreign networks as telegram, WhatsApp, etc. The findings were obtained through documentary studies, in-depth interviews with experts and active users, focus group techniques, and content analysis of cyber-user references and press interviews of officials. The result of this research show the extraction of indexes of the sense of security and the determination of its dimension in the Iranian users’ cyber space. we determined and finalized 66 indexes in 5 dimensions (including economic, political, cultural, social and legal dimensions) with 11 Categories (including the financial Exchanges, occupational Opportunities, political opinions, national power, moral Principles, cultural norms, religious beliefs, emotional, family Connections, privacy, and citizen rights).The Iranian users’ sense of online security, although manifested in varying degrees of offline security, is affected by the state-citizen relationship in the real community. The concerns of users are more focused on mental dimension and micro-security levels, where the privacy of users is sign. Double-edged sword of technology and the New Age fluid surveillance, in addition to creating freedom and promoting awareness, is in service of political system objectives and this is the main concern of Iranian users. The theories of Turkel (2011) and Wellman (2012) are good insights in explaining the status of the components of online security
mahdokht borojerdi; seyed hassan ilali
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Abstract Social networks are an important factor for social changes and appropriate tool for culture making. Virtual communication facilitates the political, social, and cultural relations of users by establishing communication autonomy from mainstream media and consequently, it causes more flexibility ...
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Abstract Social networks are an important factor for social changes and appropriate tool for culture making. Virtual communication facilitates the political, social, and cultural relations of users by establishing communication autonomy from mainstream media and consequently, it causes more flexibility and cultural adaptation of communication. These networks, due to the diversity and variety, provide requirements for improving the user's media literacy as a smart citizen. This qualitative research was carried out with the aim of investigating the impacts and consequences of the Iranian virtual life with the thematic analysis method. The research findings were obtained with documentary studies and by interviewing 25 people from experts and active users. At first the purposive or judgment sampling was used and then snowball sampling method was used. The MAXQDA software was used to draw thematic network model. Impacts of Iranians virtual life are communication capability, collective self-sufficiency, and online social and political reform, formation and strengthening of the public sphere, innovation, entrepreneurship and economic capacity. The negative consequences of Iranians virtual life are Psychological and social damage, social despotism, the production and distribution of superficial and popular content, fluid and unstable life style and identity conflict. The Iranians virtual life goes through their transition. Achieve positive effects unexpected in the transitional conditions. Therefore, promoting media literacy and removing public and private constraints is a strategy for reform and improving Iranians virtual life.
