reza kamari; Abbas Assadi; Amir Hesam Eshaghi
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Social networks (mobile platforms) are a pervasive and informal communication network, so it is a good platform for the production and dissemination of significant rumors that have many negative effects on society. Understanding the causes and how this anomalous phenomenon of virtual communication is ...
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Social networks (mobile platforms) are a pervasive and informal communication network, so it is a good platform for the production and dissemination of significant rumors that have many negative effects on society. Understanding the causes and how this anomalous phenomenon of virtual communication is formed and spread is effective in reducing and controlling it.Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of identifying common forms of rumor and its discourse in cyberspace. The research method is qualitative and thematic analysis. The statistical population of recent studies and research in the field of rumors and cyberspace is that after analyzing 30 scientific data (article, dissertation and research project), the results showed: In relation to discourse and format, three main components: discourse structure - format and The context in the production of rumors are often the same and the results are as follows: Content that is changeable, believable, slang, unsubstantiated and unscientific, vague, ambiguous and exaggerated, fiery discourse and indoctrination, truth-seeking, critical, libertarian, human rights, emotional and predictive, as well as specific, social issues - Civil, political and security issues related to "common forms and types of gossip discourse in cyber space" were extracted.
Ebrahim Ahrari; zahra Kharrazi Mohammadvandi Azar; Nasim Majidi ghahroodi
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Due to the dysfunction of mainstream media in Iran after the advent of cyberspace, this article raises the question of whether a new paradigm has emerged in the field of media that has changed the requirements of media policy and planning? The premise of this study is that with the advent of cyberspace, ...
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Due to the dysfunction of mainstream media in Iran after the advent of cyberspace, this article raises the question of whether a new paradigm has emerged in the field of media that has changed the requirements of media policy and planning? The premise of this study is that with the advent of cyberspace, a new paradigm has emerged in media policy-making that has affected all media, but instrumentalism is a veil to see.
Information and communication technology is the new infrastructure of human society. This infrastructure does not only have a technological aspect, but its paradigmatic aspect is more obvious, and it has caused the effects that the society has received from the new media technology to not only have technical dimensions, but these effects are more extensive in terms of biological philosophy.
The experience of recent years shows that most of the strategic plans of institutions and organizations in charge of media policy in Iran, especially in the field of virtual space, have failed in practice. The unsuccessful plan to replace the native platforms of social networks instead of foreign platforms is a clear example of this. The main cause of this failure is a purely technological view of the issue and neglect of the paradigm that governs and drives these media.
Therefore, the necessity of this review lies in the importance of understanding the philosophy of virtual space technology. Before proceeding to import the technology, the country importing the technology should determine the paradigm context within which this technology was created. What issues are you trying to solve with it? What are the changes it creates in the heart of the society? What aspects of technology can be accepted and adapted, and how much can it be controlled and modified, and how much does it create conflict in society?
The main question that this article pursues is that "virtual space has brought about paradigm changes in media planning and policy-making, and what are the effects of the new space on "media production" and "media distribution"?
In this research, three library methods, phenomenology and thematic analysis were used, and in-depth interviews were conducted with 25 active media experts in the two fields of mass communication and virtual space, who were selected by snowball sampling.
Among the theories that can guide the topic of discussion are the theories of "network society" by Manuel Castells, "participatory-democratic media" by McQuail, "alternative media" by Downing, and the theory of "the end of the social thing" from Alan Thorne that have been taken into consideration.
In the findings of the research, by extracting 64 themes of the paradigm governing the virtual space, it was shown how the communication space has faced the new media grammar.
The principles of the new media grammar are "overcoming the right-oriented over the task-oriented, going through the maximalist and absolutist media, multi-source media and de-publicizing the news, minimizing the media structure with the aim of agility and increasing the range and ending the domination of pyramid-shaped structures, changing the approaches of message management, the content and demand for change and response".
The results of the research tell us that virtual space is the result of the accumulation and historical continuity of the biological paradigm of the reformation and its intellectual branches, especially human-centered.
According to the results of this research, although virtual space and social networks cannot be considered a "paradigm case" and a complete model of communication technology, in many dimensions, media policy and planning are changing from one paradigm to another.
In response to the research questions, cyberspace phenomenology has changed the fields of media "production" and "distribution" and media policy and planning in many dimensions by reproducing the biological paradigm of the reformation.
The paradigmatic data governing the virtual space creates the awareness that this technology has a heavy philosophical obstacle and is the result of the accumulation and historical continuity of the biological paradigm of the Reformation and the resulting intellectual branches such as existentialism, humanism, secularism, liberalism and human rights ideas. and postmodern critics.
The school ruling the virtual space can be defined as the "Social Democratic Existentialist" identity combination; a technology based on "equality, freedom and human-centeredness". This technology is supposed to create a human being who is not a prisoner of any historical, political, social and religious determinism and does not have a predetermined nature.
The pluralism ruling the virtual space should not create the impression that the weight of ideology has been reduced in favor of technology. The human-centered idea that forms the basis of Western technology is a return to the humanistic thought of Protagoras who believed that "man is the measure of everything" and this idea was developed by "William Acham" and "Martin Luther" in the 14th and 16th centuries. It was reread and interpreted as "everyone is his own spiritual person" and its media expression in the virtual space can be projected as "everyone has his own media".
SeyedHesam Gheblezade; SeyedAlireza Afshani; Hossein Eslami
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Rumor and its impact on human social life have always been important. In recent years, with the expansion of cyberspace, the conditions for spreading rumors have been facilitated. This study has analyzed the narrative of the Yazdian youth from the prevalence of rumors in cyberspace. This study was qualitative ...
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Rumor and its impact on human social life have always been important. In recent years, with the expansion of cyberspace, the conditions for spreading rumors have been facilitated. This study has analyzed the narrative of the Yazdian youth from the prevalence of rumors in cyberspace. This study was qualitative research and performed according to grounded theory. The participants were the youth of Yazd, 24 of them were purposefully selected and studied through interviews, and open, axial, and selective coding was used to analyze them. Based on interviews with young people, 43 concepts, 20 first categories, 14-second categories, 5 core categories (rumor prevalence, rumor belief, rumor credibility, rumor enhancement, and rumor attenuation), and the phenomenon of "The razor's edge of the news malfunction in cyberspace" is constructed. It turned out that shows paradoxical space and so-called two edges of function and malfunction information in cyberspace. The results showed the negative view of young people on cyberspace and news published in this context, and the best way to reduce the impact of rumors and their dissemination is to inform and promote media literacy of the audience.
hasan momeni; Marjan Albehbahani
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The desirable and harmful effects of cyberspace on different aspects of life especially education and schooling have always been a subject of debate. Thus, the main purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of lifestyle influenced by cyberspace on academic engagement of students. The statistical ...
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The desirable and harmful effects of cyberspace on different aspects of life especially education and schooling have always been a subject of debate. Thus, the main purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of lifestyle influenced by cyberspace on academic engagement of students. The statistical population consisted of high school students (junior and senior) of the city of Dehloran (Ilam Province, Iran) in the academic year 2018-19., 360 of whom were selected as the sample through cluster random sampling. The necessary data were collected by two standard questionnaires, i.e., Reev’s (2013) student engagement questionnaire and Taheri’s (2014) questionnaire. Cronbach’s alpha was used to measure the reliability of both questionnaires (α = 0.88). The correlation coefficients showed that there is a significant negative relationship between lifestyle influenced by cyberspace and academic engagement (r=-0.39, p≤0.001). Analysis of structural equation modeling (SEM) with AMOS also indicated that the lifestyle influenced by cyberspace variable and its six dimensions (knowledge acquisition, communication, identity, services, enjoyment seeking, and outcome) were able to predict 51% (R2=0.51) of the variance in the academic engagement variable (β= -0.53 and p≤0.00). The results showed that lifestyle influenced by cyberspace had a negative effect on academic performance of students. Therefore, it was concluded that such lifestyle needs to be modified with a view to attain maximum benefits and minimum costs.
Alireza Hosseini Pakdehi; mahya baharyan
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New communication technologies with the potential to create change in social communication, has become the most important element of social change in the modern age. Social media has been able to create virtual social networks consisting of different users, users with their activities networks, can legally ...
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New communication technologies with the potential to create change in social communication, has become the most important element of social change in the modern age. Social media has been able to create virtual social networks consisting of different users, users with their activities networks, can legally reproduce social action. The purpose of this study is to investigate those actions that contain socially violent themes, and therefore the purpose of about 3,000 socially violent tweets published over a period of one year, the second half of 1998 and the first half of 1999 on the network Twitter social was achieved through contact, content analysis, and the goals and motivations for republishing users' virtual social violence. The purpose of republishing their social protests is to examine 9 general themes. Users publish their social protests on topics that include violence against the constitution, the guardianship of the constitution, officials and managers of the Islamic Republic, the manner of administering justice, public media activities, religiosity, virtual actions in Virtual social networks and finally reading the position of women in society and the demands of women.
Sayed Javad Sharif Shaykh al-Islami; Farhad Nazarizadeh; Ahmad gaeini
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One of the most important issues for policymakers in the field of media is the future of the media. If policymakers and decision-makers in this field do not gain knowledge about the future, they can not have a preconceived notion about the issues and currents assigned to them, so they will always face ...
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One of the most important issues for policymakers in the field of media is the future of the media. If policymakers and decision-makers in this field do not gain knowledge about the future, they can not have a preconceived notion about the issues and currents assigned to them, so they will always face critical situations that make decisions at this time very costly. Be. Social media has a great impact on creating discourse and changing the lifestyle and beliefs of society. Therefore, studying the future, especially social media in the field of cyberspace is very important. In this study, we have tried to study the future trends of social networks and in this direction, using 32 sources selected from 2018 onwards, we have counted the drivers and macro trends and determined the most effective drivers using the opinion of the elites. We do. To do this, we have used two methods of expert panel of Mick Mac software and AHP method using Expert Choice software, the results of both methods show the importance of technological and economic changes. Of all the drivers, technology was identified as the most effective driver in future changes in social networks.
peyman bagherpoor; hossein mousavi; sayed ali mohammad azarbakhsh
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AbstractThe integration and integration of traditional media and the developments and changes of new technologies and media have led to media convergence. Convergence has certainly been one of the most important, yet controversial, concepts in the media industry over the past two decades, so that some ...
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AbstractThe integration and integration of traditional media and the developments and changes of new technologies and media have led to media convergence. Convergence has certainly been one of the most important, yet controversial, concepts in the media industry over the past two decades, so that some theorists of the 21st century are already Convergence is referred to as the Second Industrial Revolution. Therefore, this phenomenon is an ongoing and evolving process that encompasses all areas of the media, including technology, industry, content and audiences. So, in this research, the question is what are the methods of convergence between audio and video and space in content production? The present study was a qualitative study. The research data were categorized through in-depth interviews with 12 experts, collected and after extraction and coding. Finally, in response to the main research question, strategies were presented, which are: 1- Training of media literacy of the audience 2- Changing media functions 3- Removing parasites 4- Different use of both media spaces 5- Interacting with the Audience 6- Changing Strategies 7- Changing Policies through Designing Media, Creating Media Policy, Creating Common Discourse, and Having Specialized Power 8- Enjoying Rich Archives, Social Trust, and Advantage Organizational IoT 9- Convertability and content processing 10- Benefit of image and audio benefits 11- Use of people-generated content 12- Use high diffusion rate in our space Azzi 13. Mvj of use.
Zahra Majdizadeا; Hamideh Molaei
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This study aims to investigate the voice of Iranian Diaspora in Cyberspace. In particular it seeks to explore their concerns regarding their home country, Iran and to explore their role and influence in the formation of Iran-related contents on Twitter. While the formation of Iranian Diaspora was before ...
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This study aims to investigate the voice of Iranian Diaspora in Cyberspace. In particular it seeks to explore their concerns regarding their home country, Iran and to explore their role and influence in the formation of Iran-related contents on Twitter. While the formation of Iranian Diaspora was before the rise of new Information and Communication Technologies, the rise of the aforementioned technological improvements have had an influential role to make their voice heard in offline and online spheres, in particular in Twitter. Having conducted content analysis, the results of the study showed that Iranian Diaspora play a key role in content creation in online sphere and in particular in Twitter. However, the results also indicated that there is a multi step flow of information in their online network given that their main hubs are only few Iranian Diasporia organizations that are established in the host countries. In addition, the results of analyzing 270 selected tweets from Iranian Diasporas indicates that 'criticizing the situation in Iran", "Covering the news regarding protest and propagating them" and "relatively neutral news and information" were the dominant themes and topics twitted –and re twitted _by them.
Mojdeh Mahrokhmoghadam; Nasim Majidi ghahroodi; Afsaneh Mozaffari
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AbstractAlong with the development of the societies and its scientific and cultural progress, some of the non-material manifestations, including the rights of individuals, to their claims and various aspects of the exploitation of non-property were also recognized as a kind of property. These include ...
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AbstractAlong with the development of the societies and its scientific and cultural progress, some of the non-material manifestations, including the rights of individuals, to their claims and various aspects of the exploitation of non-property were also recognized as a kind of property. These include intellectual property rights. It has also been challenged by the emergence and expansion of cyberspace, longstanding balance and coexistence of copyrights and public interests. At the moment, because of not joining the Bern Convention, the country's relationship with the international level is disconnected. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the author's rights to establish cultural, economic and ... relations in the international arena. Delphi method was used in this study. The statistical population of this study includes experts, authors, educators and activists in the field of law, communications, and information technology, which also has the ability and expertise in the field of intellectual property. The sample was selected using snowball sampling. Based on the results of this research, the factors affecting intellectual property rights in the field of books and publications in cyberspace were identified in several fields. In fact, four areas of effective intellectual property rights have been identified: media, legal, philosophical and technical. In the end, the proper policy-making of intellectual property rights issues is felt in these four areas.
maryam pourjamshidi; akbar momeni rad; Afshin Afzali
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The purpose of this study was to identify the dimensions of social life of citizens and their impact on cyberspace in Hamadan province. The method of the present study is a mixed-type consecutive exploration design. Qualitative participants included experts in Hamadan province in the field of social ...
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The purpose of this study was to identify the dimensions of social life of citizens and their impact on cyberspace in Hamadan province. The method of the present study is a mixed-type consecutive exploration design. Qualitative participants included experts in Hamadan province in the field of social issues, among whom 10 were selected as well as theoretical research related literature among which 7 books, 131 articles, and 10 theses were selected purposefully. The study population in the quantitative section includes the citizens of Hamadan province, from which 400 people were selected by stratified random sampling. A researcher-made questionnaire and semi-structured interview were used for data collection. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient and its construct validity through confirmatory factor analysis. The results were obtained in the qualitative section of 6 categories including social security and health, citizenship awareness, contrasting tradition and modernity, social ethics, social participation, and social responsibility. In the quantitative part, the results also showed that the largest use of cyberspace is in terms of quantity for entertainment and the least is commercial and economic activities. In terms of usage, communication is first and then entertainment, learning, and business activities, respectively. Also, the impact of cyberspace was negative on three categories of social issues including social security and health; citizen awareness; and the contrast between tradition and modernity
ashraf karimi rahjerdi; Abdolali ghavam; raha kharazi azar; ali geranmayepour
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This research examines the role of mobile-based media in shaping collective wisdom. In this qualitative study, using content analysis approach, the statistical community of university professors and experts were selected through purposeful sampling. A semi-structured, deep-seated interviewing tool that ...
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This research examines the role of mobile-based media in shaping collective wisdom. In this qualitative study, using content analysis approach, the statistical community of university professors and experts were selected through purposeful sampling. A semi-structured, deep-seated interviewing tool that went into saturation. Most collective community members considered collective and participatory decisions based on value system and reference experiences with the ability to recognize and understand the general group of human about common issues, which is the result of the synergy of understanding and recognition of the group in a participatory relationship, and the indicator Such as collective participation based on the collective interest based on collective wisdom with regard to social sensitivity and collective behavior, with regard to reference experiences and value system, and special attention to common culture and language and history, and the generalization of the dialectic of reason and excitement in the community in the direction of social profit And participated in it, and stated that mobile-based media were the cause The low cost, the spread of freedom of expression, the localization of public opinion, and the possibility of spreading public opinion through the direct participation of citizens, and the platform for the reflection of social and economic realities without censorship, without prejudice, and giving equal opportunity to supporters and opponents For commenting, it has been made to take a step towards the formation of a collective wisdom.
kianoosh karimi; Jalal Ghafari Ghadir
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Aim: With the advent of new media and the rise of public literacy, public opinion and persuasion have become more important. According Saroukhani, Persuasion is the final aim of any relationship, whether humanistic or mediastics. Persuasion plays a key role in strengthening global status and attaining ...
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Aim: With the advent of new media and the rise of public literacy, public opinion and persuasion have become more important. According Saroukhani, Persuasion is the final aim of any relationship, whether humanistic or mediastics. Persuasion plays a key role in strengthening global status and attaining strategic goals for any political and economic trends and so on. The present research has tried to achieve a comprehensive approach to persuasion of public opinion in cyberspace using the capabilities of Gamification as a motivational tools.Methods: we have tried by using three consecutive steps consisting of documentary research, Delphi, and in-depth interviews with Gamification and Cyberspace experts, provided a comprehensive model for persuasion of public opinion in cyberspace.Findings: At the first and second steps of the research by using the documentary and Delphi method (in three consecutive rounds), were identified a comprehensive model for influencing public opinion (7 steps) and 13 Gamification capabilities. At the third and final step of the research, based on the results of the first two stages of the study, models were presented for Gamify the stages of influencing public opinion.Conclusion: The seven-step model of influencing public opinion, known as an important tool in the advertising fields, can be used as a basis for persuading public opinion in cyberspace. The use of Gamification technology, which has a strong background in attracting and engaging audiences, ensures the success of the model influences public opinion. Combining Gamification with public opinion persuasion models increases their effectiveness and efficiency.
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.
Alireza Hoseyni Pakdehi; Hosnieh Al-sadat Shobeyri
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In different countries, media literacy education methods and success rates differ. For example, Canada, with its profound history in media literacy education, is the most successful country in the world, but despite widespread importance of media in Iran, media literacy education in this country is relatively ...
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In different countries, media literacy education methods and success rates differ. For example, Canada, with its profound history in media literacy education, is the most successful country in the world, but despite widespread importance of media in Iran, media literacy education in this country is relatively new.The present study compared performance of a model country in teaching media literacy (Canada) with a country new on this way (Iran). Therefore, the performance of Canadian Media Awareness Network that provides media literacy education via “Media Smarts Website” and Iranian “Media Literacy Website”, the only Persian website providing media literacy education, were compared using “content analysis" method. The main results are as follows: majority of the contents in Iranian Website were "informative" and "alarming", but most of the contacts in Canadian Website had features of a real “educational sources. Canadian Website developed educational contents using the theories proposed by media literacy experts; While Iranian website has not used these valuable sources.
Ali Entezari; Maghsoud Amiri; Najmeh Sadat Mortaji
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This paper attempts to study the knowledge-sharing behaviors of Iranian professionals in cyberspace. To this end, semi-structured interviews, Delphi method and an online questionnaire were used as research tools through qualitative and quantitative methods. Since the main research tools were semi-structured ...
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This paper attempts to study the knowledge-sharing behaviors of Iranian professionals in cyberspace. To this end, semi-structured interviews, Delphi method and an online questionnaire were used as research tools through qualitative and quantitative methods. Since the main research tools were semi-structured interviews with 15 experts to meet the research purposes, the process was continued until the “theoretical saturation” was realized. Afterwards, in order to approve or amend the obtained indices from the analysis of interview texts, the Delphi method was used. Hence, the knowledge-sharing behavior model was extracted. Through chain sampling, the selected network users, 299 electronic questionnaires were collected and analyzed using Smart PLS software and confirmatory factor analysis (rate of return, 77%). The findings indicate that the main variables of knowledge-sharing behaviors are divided into individual, group, and environmental indices respectively. Components of the individual dimension of knowledge-sharing include motivation, ethicality, personality, ability, attitude towards knowledge-sharing and psychological security. Group dimension of knowledge-sharing include shared benefits, group structure and social capital and finally environmental factors, including technological (technical requirements of specialized social networks), political rights (the country's cyberspace policy), economic (cost and variety of internet packages), socio-cultural (expert lifestyle and national character).
Mehdi Montazerghaem; Mona Sha’ban Kasegar
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The present study is a research on the capabilities of women in the cyberspace. Regardless of the limitations of the real world, cyberspace can empower women participation and individual capabilities. If woman have the necessary skills and motivations, they can use the internet and content production ...
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The present study is a research on the capabilities of women in the cyberspace. Regardless of the limitations of the real world, cyberspace can empower women participation and individual capabilities. If woman have the necessary skills and motivations, they can use the internet and content production to their benefit. They can also make their voice heard and change the society’s stereotypes and images about them. However, there are requirements to achieve such goals. This study aims to find those requirements and investigate their impacts on the empowerment of women in the cyberspace. A questionnaire was prepared and given to the women active in the cyberspace. Data gathered through 429 completed questionnaires was analyzed using SPSS. The results show that different variables including purposeful activities, knowing other active women, level of activity and media literacy can improve women's capabilities in the cyberspace.
Mohammad Amin Ghane’irad; Ali Janadleh
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The development of the Internet as a modern communication technology has raised new, important and different issues regarding the relation between this technology and the public sphere. In this paper, based on Habermaus’s theory, we have proposed four fundamental questions about the possibility ...
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The development of the Internet as a modern communication technology has raised new, important and different issues regarding the relation between this technology and the public sphere. In this paper, based on Habermaus’s theory, we have proposed four fundamental questions about the possibility and impossibility of development of the public sphere in the cyberspace in order to prepare a systematic review of the proposed theories. Based on the results of the study, it is possible to distinguish three different views toward the development of virtual public sphere: possibility, impossibility, and conditional nature of the formation of the virtual public sphere. The resultant of these three views is that despite the capacity of the cyberspace for the development of virtual public sphere, there are still important challenges such as the digital divide, polarization, cyberspace fragmentation, anonymity, and loosening of the real social ties. In addition, closer study of the relation between cyberspace and public sphere requires us to avoid technological determinism, and consider the institutional and social contexts and perform comparative studies on different social and institutional contexts
