Ali Etemadoleslami Bakhtoyari; Taher Roshandel Arbatani; mahdi zolfagharzadeh; Ali Akbar Farhangi
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The goal of this research is to recognize the forces affected social networks on mobile devices. The social networks are defined as internet-based services that let individuals create profiles for themselves and set list of audiences with whom connect and share the content. In Mobile Social Networks, ...
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The goal of this research is to recognize the forces affected social networks on mobile devices. The social networks are defined as internet-based services that let individuals create profiles for themselves and set list of audiences with whom connect and share the content. In Mobile Social Networks, social networks are developed on mobile devices. In addition, Users can upload films and photos in their social networks without desktop. In this kind of social networks, individuals can share content and connect to their friends while they are in movement and involved in their daily life. Forces affected on future include trends, uncertainties and stakeholders. To review English literature, research question and protocol was set. By searching and tracking news, 823 qualified articles were obtained. Between obtained articles, 253 of them were selected and translated based on protocol. By analyzing in technological-environmental, demographic-social, legal-political and economic framework 19 uncertainties, 25 trends and 12 stakeholders are extracted. Concluded that future of Facebook company is the future of social networks. The necessity of international treaty, proper regulation and public education are emphasized.
Seyyed Rouhollah Hadj Zargarbashi; Ehsan Movahhedian
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The subject of this article is “U.S Cyber Diplomacy Influence on Viewpoint of Iranian Users of Cyberspace(Case Study: USA Dar Farsi Facebook Webpage)”. Nowadays, using Internet and social networks to advance foreign policy goals and national interests, has become one of the most important ...
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The subject of this article is “U.S Cyber Diplomacy Influence on Viewpoint of Iranian Users of Cyberspace(Case Study: USA Dar Farsi Facebook Webpage)”. Nowadays, using Internet and social networks to advance foreign policy goals and national interests, has become one of the most important issues. From 40’s and during World War II, U.S government tried to implement various cultural programs, stuent exchange programs, and use publications, the media and movies to convince residents of different countries about its foreign policy goals, and it became known as public diplomacy. Considering Iran’s high stance in U.S foreign policy, United States Department of State implemented various cyber diplomacy projects to influence Iranians public opinion that include launching USA Dar Farsi Facebook Webpage. In this thesis, the Author tried to answer one key question concerning this important strategy within US foreign policy system: What is the Influence of USA Dar Farsi Facebook Webpage, as a tool of U.S Cyber Diplomacy, on Viewpoint of Iranian Users of Cyberspace? For this purpose, qualitative content analysis of USA Dar Farsi Facebook Webpage and sending questionnaires to its users and other Iranian users of Internet has been used. The hypothesis is that, comparing to Iranian Internet users who do not read USA Dar Farsi Facebook Webpage content, the USA Dar Farsi Facebook Webpage users are more influenced by cyber diplomacy content and messages and this leads to negative attitude towards Iranian society.
mehdi bigdeloo
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Political culture in Iran as a cultural space that manifests the way people relate to the political system has affected in recent decades various phenomena such as revolution, the structure of the political system, government agents, and so on. In this cultural context, the phenomenon of virtual social ...
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Political culture in Iran as a cultural space that manifests the way people relate to the political system has affected in recent decades various phenomena such as revolution, the structure of the political system, government agents, and so on. In this cultural context, the phenomenon of virtual social networking has left many works in recent years. But the phenomenon, and in particular the Twitter and Facebook networks, have been able to affect the political culture of university professors as other historical phenomena as the most exploitative of these two social networks, the issue that the present study aims to answer to a case-to-face approach And at the descriptive-analytical level. This study, using the views of the humanities professors of the universities of eight metropolitan areas of the country in a survey method, and then analyzing the data obtained using the Tao Kendall test, concluded that three functions of development of regulatory capabilities, convergence of social communication and the valuation of Twitter and Facebook The sum of the six components of the eight components of the political culture of political users in Iran has been effective, including all three functions of the critique of the political system; two functions affecting distrust, alienation, and the superiority of religious values and only one function on extremism and self-rule, and extra-judicial behaviors Intellectual absolutism also does not affect these functions.
Amir Zandmoghadam; Roya Vafaeimehr
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Given the inevitable role of social networks in our social-linguistic interactions and because of the fact that social networks need to be analyzed and understood scientifically and that few studies have investigated social networks from a linguistic perspective, the aim of the present study was to investigate ...
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Given the inevitable role of social networks in our social-linguistic interactions and because of the fact that social networks need to be analyzed and understood scientifically and that few studies have investigated social networks from a linguistic perspective, the aim of the present study was to investigate and describe agreement and disagreement strategies used by Persian and English native speakers in their comment tags in Facebook. To this end, a corpus of 1196 comments was collected and analyzed based on the existing models of speech act strategies. Also, their use of strategies to express their feelings while agreeing and disagreeing in their comments was analyzed. The findings revealed that there is a significant difference between English and Persian native speakers in terms of the strategies they use for agreement and disagreement speech acts and the expression of their feelings while agreeing and disagreeing. It was also found that there is a difference between males and females in terms of using agreeing and disagreeing strategies and the accompanying strategies for the expression of their feelings; females were observed to use more strategies on the whole. The results of this study can have a contribution to the researchers in the fields of communication sciences and pragmatics.
nematollah fazeli; mohamad soltanifar; Hojjat Ollah Abbasi
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In addition to producing and publicating information,Social networks are good platforms for organizational management.The Islamic State (ISIS) plans terrorist operations through social networks, especially Facebook and Twitter.The group advances asks such as the recruitment and organization of forces, ...
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In addition to producing and publicating information,Social networks are good platforms for organizational management.The Islamic State (ISIS) plans terrorist operations through social networks, especially Facebook and Twitter.The group advances asks such as the recruitment and organization of forces, planning and implementation of operations, monitoring and control, guidance and leadership, communication and coordination of terrorist operations through telephony in social networks.Twitter and Facebook social networks have goals, benefits and effective performances for the ISIS group .ISIS's goals in these networks include attracting attention, gaining legitimacy and acceptability, identifying, announcing existence and gaining power.Advantages include global audiences, easy access, network power, high speed, horizontal connectivity, inclusive communications, interactive communication, flexible communications and low cost communications.These networks have the informing function, social mobilization and social solidarity for the ISIS terrorist group and advancing its goals on the international scene.This research was conducted to explain the goals, benefits and functions of Twitter and Facebook social networks for the Islamic State's terrorist group with the aim of identifying, controlling and confronting the phenomenon of media terrorism and reducing the damage caused by it.The data of this research have been collected and analyzed through grounded theory and documentary studies.
Farideh Hoseinsabet; Zahra Jahangard; Abdollah Motamedi
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The virtual social networks have become popular among the young generation, one of the most popular networks, Facebook. Infiltration and increase the number of Facebook users among young generation. Unforgivable social networking could affect the quality of the formation of social and family relationships. ...
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The virtual social networks have become popular among the young generation, one of the most popular networks, Facebook. Infiltration and increase the number of Facebook users among young generation. Unforgivable social networking could affect the quality of the formation of social and family relationships. The study aimed to investigate the relation ship between emotional intelligence, attachment styles and family solidarity with the Facebook users . Recent research on high school students in Tehran ( 204 user, user ,no user 103 ) . On being asked showed that 1 ) the predictors of family cohesion and emotional intelligence variables could significantly predict the user and no user , 2) between family cohesion and the use of Facebook, there is a significant negative correlation, 3 ) between the sub scales less family cohesion are tending more towards the use of Facebook and the use of Facebook and there is no attachment styles.
Ahmad Sadat
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Professional structure and function of TV News Channels in the past two decades have been affected by the emergence of quasi-independent news channels, development of new media, and also quick release of social networks. This issue has caused the emergence of new news channels with professional structures ...
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Professional structure and function of TV News Channels in the past two decades have been affected by the emergence of quasi-independent news channels, development of new media, and also quick release of social networks. This issue has caused the emergence of new news channels with professional structures in the Middle East to enter the media competition. In this new competitive environment, the television networks to maintain their position should be looking to take advantage of the capabilities of new media and social networks. Due to the use of social networks, especially Facebook, by Al-Alam Channel during the Arab Spring, this study clarifies and analyzes the status of this Network in use of the potentials of Facebook and promotion of communication with the Facebook’s audience. The findings of this study show that although Al-Alam Channel which has received later using of Facebook in comparison with regional and international rivals, it has been successful during the period of 8 months by expanding its sphere of influence in the social networks in the use of Facebook’s features and establishing effective communication with its own audience in the Arab world.
Mohammad Rezaei; Maryam Pooraskari
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This study tries to examine the relations between using Facebook and people’s voting behavior in Iran’s presidential election in 2013. Taking a qualitative approach, we used virtual ethnography and observation techniques, as well as in-depth interviews to gather the research data and we used ...
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This study tries to examine the relations between using Facebook and people’s voting behavior in Iran’s presidential election in 2013. Taking a qualitative approach, we used virtual ethnography and observation techniques, as well as in-depth interviews to gather the research data and we used thematic analysis to analyze to gathered data. The results show that for a number of reasons, Facebook played a role in changing people’s minds from not attending the election to taking part in it. The election was the first after the disputed presidential election in 2009 and some people considered voting a taboo. Lack of dialogue and political discussion in Iran’s political and media environment outside Facebook, improved the website’s role. Another reason was the fact that Facebook provided an alternative to the state media. We argue that analyzing the effects of specific social media is only possible if one looks into the country’s political environment and the role of the social media websites in the society. The results show that political arguments may result in increasing people’s level of political information or motivation, but don’t necessarily change their voting behavior.
alireza abdolahinejad; Javad Sadeghi; Abuzar Ghasemi Nejhad
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The current study examines the effects of the social media, Facebook, Instagram and Telegram on the political participation of the students of Allameh Tabataba’i University in Iran’s Parliamentary Elections in 2016. We used Cochran test and surveyed 370 students from the 8569 people studying ...
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The current study examines the effects of the social media, Facebook, Instagram and Telegram on the political participation of the students of Allameh Tabataba’i University in Iran’s Parliamentary Elections in 2016. We used Cochran test and surveyed 370 students from the 8569 people studying on the main campus of the university. The results show that there are significant direct relations between the amount of time spent on the chosen media and the students’ political participation (0.413), trust in the media and the students’ political participation (0.318) and effectiveness in using media and the students’ political participation (0.523). Two other factors including respondents’ education level (-0.401) and age (-0.431) had significant reverse relation with political participation of the students. The results of regression analysis show that five variables including media usage, trust, using effectiveness, educational level and age can predict the students’ political participation by 32 percent.
Abdollah Bicharanlou; Hamed Talebian; Sarah Zandevakili
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This study attempted to understand the features and factors associated with representation of privacy among the Facebook users and its cultural consequences. To achieve this goal, first, we studied the cultural and semantic perceptions of the users about the concept of privacy in order to provide a basis ...
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This study attempted to understand the features and factors associated with representation of privacy among the Facebook users and its cultural consequences. To achieve this goal, first, we studied the cultural and semantic perceptions of the users about the concept of privacy in order to provide a basis for the study of representation, concealment and protection of privacy among the users. In order to understand cultural patterns, we used virtual ethnography. Through the fieldwork we performed online and offline ethnographical interviews with 21 active Facebook users in different intervals. The findings of this study indicated a core feature to be the diversity of the cultural definitions of the users of the concept of privacy. It is based on two factors of “tendency to represent” and “tendency to hide”. The synonyms of these concepts in social interactions are “tendency to view” and “tendency to review”.
Mohammad Rezaei; Mohammad Ali Khalili Ardakani; Behrang Zabetian
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In this paper, we have tried to investigate the construction process of the feminine self on Facebook. In this regard, using Qualitative Content Analysis method, we have checked out Facebook profiles of 20 professional users. The results indicate optimistic approach toward the presence of women on Facebook. ...
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In this paper, we have tried to investigate the construction process of the feminine self on Facebook. In this regard, using Qualitative Content Analysis method, we have checked out Facebook profiles of 20 professional users. The results indicate optimistic approach toward the presence of women on Facebook. In other words, while traditional gender stereotypes assume women to be emotional, obedient, passive, dependent, and attractive, female professional users have presented themselves as active, independent, powerful, and critical of existing social conditions in different parts of their Facebook profile such as posts on the wall, profile photos, privacy settings, profile names, comments, friends, and groups. So, to some extent we can see breaks in the boundaries of binary-gender on Facebook.
