Hassan Bashir; Amir Reza Tamaddon; Amin Mirshekari Soleimani
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With the increasing use of new communication technologies, public opinion management tools have also undergone fundamental changes; both in terms of method and theoretical foundations, there have been developments in the field of public opinion management that double the need to review and develop the ...
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With the increasing use of new communication technologies, public opinion management tools have also undergone fundamental changes; both in terms of method and theoretical foundations, there have been developments in the field of public opinion management that double the need to review and develop the theoretical literature of the past. What is now being referred to as a new way of managing public opinion in recent years, and especially after the 2016 US election, is the issue of "social manipulation". The authors believe that Iran is one of the countries that is exposed to hostile social manipulation by regional and supra-regional powers due to its special communication position. To this end, with the framework of hostile social manipulation, the cyber actions of Saudi Arabia against the Islamic Republic of Iran have been studied. For the present study, more than 900,000 data related to Iran in Arabic were extracted by Twitter from the social network Twitter until 2021 & 2022 years; Then, using the network analysis method, the activity of Saudi users has been specially studied. The results of the study show that Saudi Arabia, with its hostile social manipulation techniques, especially by investing in cyber tools, seeks to discredit, destabilize, weaken, and sometimes promote specific groups and institutions that are important to the country's competitive power.
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.
Mahdi Adiban; aliasghar kiya
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Abstract:The mobile journalism and its impact on production and news publication has led to more public opinion. Pattern of publication (Publish then filter),(Down to Up),(One to all), The most important distinction is this new type of journalism.Although Pakistan has various medias; but partly and economic ...
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Abstract:The mobile journalism and its impact on production and news publication has led to more public opinion. Pattern of publication (Publish then filter),(Down to Up),(One to all), The most important distinction is this new type of journalism.Although Pakistan has various medias; but partly and economic association and the traditional structure which governing it. The possibility of participation and impact of public opinion in the news process has been limited.Mobile journalism in Pakistan relying on the three characteristic of (anywhere , anytime and anyone) promise the power of getting public opinion.In the event of the Temple Blast (Data Darbar), despite the overwhelming approach of traditional media to related news that tried to sect it and set this great country to the brink of civil war, media along with social media, currents, and political actors with different and, of course, realistic, newspapers to counteract differences.The mobile journalism is essentially a novelty. Innovative character and questions that focus on how this type of journalism works and influence this research, relying on the inductive strategy and the use of qualitative methods of text analysis and combination with historical study. The most important result of this research is the identification of the transformation of the power of public opinion with the help of mobile media, including the associated journalistic effects, increasing the political-civil participation of users.
