Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Seyyed Vahid Aghili ¹
• Taher Roshandel Arbatani ²
• Mohammad Mahdi Farajian ³

¹ Associate Professor of Islamic Azad university of faculty of communication science and media studies

² Professor of faculty of management, The university of Tehran

³ PhD student, Media management, The university of Tehran

Abstract

Traditionally, Television have had an important role in the world’s elections. This has always been the case until social media emerged. Today all kinds of social media have a great influence on elections. In Iran using social media in recent years has been widespread. So studying these media and knowing about its impacts on political behavior of people. This research has been conducted to study about social media in elections in Iran. Because of some features that they have like pluralism, possibility to hear and look at numerous and diverse views, Lower formalism than official media and so on, experts believed gradually they will be replaced with traditional media. They believe some problems like distortion of source credit or dedicating to distribution role would be solved With the advent of groups and individuals who play the role of intellectual authority. Also these media can play the role of Habermas public sphere.

Keywords

• Social Media
• Mass media
• election
• public sphere
• Delphi Method